From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CA9F1395E2 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 01:53:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B19EEE0D91; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 01:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omr-m007e.mx.aol.com (omr-m007e.mx.aol.com [204.29.186.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F918E0D8D for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 01:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mtaout-mcb02.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mcb02.mx.aol.com [172.26.50.174]) by omr-m007e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id ABD26380004D for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 20:53:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.52] (0x5b3139322e3136382e312e35325d [71.122.242.106]) by mtaout-mcb02.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPA id 5BCB938000300; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 20:53:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] (OT) Accounting systems: Ledger-CLI vs GNUcash To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <66c49893-9f58-c832-a3a8-67b4b911e4df@gentoo.org> <20161203230156.GB25917@orbis-terrarum.net> <20161204072251.GC25917@orbis-terrarum.net> <3fbc7f88-8901-cc3d-b19d-38bc013911c8@verizon.net> From: james Message-ID: <7b8d9188-9d7b-ea85-666a-71126ad44503@verizon.net> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 20:53:12 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1a32ae5844c8897558 X-AOL-IP: 71.122.242.106 X-Archives-Salt: 2cb3ac81-cfd3-4cfa-9629-34deeb8c9122 X-Archives-Hash: e8dbed9bc5c1c7788c52ca10b826c971 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 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