Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash

[james]

On 12/04/2016 05:55 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> (OT accounting systems)

> If there is a good GNUCash support for non-profit accounting (which does
> differ from small-business accounting, see [2]), and matching
> documentation for it, I'm VERY interested to know about it.

Robin,

I posted on on the gnucash list and got some responses. You should join 
that list and get your detailed questions answered. Gnucash has a 
wonderful collection of expertise on that list and they appear to be
many 'non-profits' using gnucash and they are quiet helpful::

I posted this::


On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:18 PM james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote:
     Hello gnucash users.
     I use gnucash for my small business, for years and I'm quite happy 
with     it. Recently, I was ask if Gnucash has as good of support for 
501(c)3     non-profits as does ledger (www.ledger-cli.org)?
     Any and all comments are warmly received.

     James


And the private response was::

"At its heart, anything you can do with a pen-and-paper system Double 
Entry Accounting system, you can also do with GnuCash. This includes 
keeping books for a 501(c)(3). Several of us do so.

There are a few things you might want to customize: the "Profit/Loss" 
report is misnamed for a non-profit organization, for instance, and the 
standard business chart of accounts does not match the categories that 
the IRS wants things to be in for the annual tax filing. But those are 
all easy to change."


So just join gnucash-user and get a solution you are happy with.

hth,
James