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Ask HN: What tool do you use for personal bookkeeping?

6 pointsby terrykohlaabout 12 years ago
I had a customized MS Excel spreadsheet back in the days, my roommate would use Microsoft Money, then I tried Quicken, now I see there are many interesting apps out there to keep track of your expenses.<p>What do you use? What do you recommend?

4 comments

dangrossmanabout 12 years ago
For keeping track of signups/revenue/expenses/profit on a daily/monthly basis, I use custom widgets on a GeckoBoard status board. They poll a handful of scripts that combine some SQL queries into various products' customer/payment databases, with arrays of fixed expenses and some formulas to estimate variable ones like payment transaction fees for the current month.<p>For actual bookkeeping, QuickBooks Pro.<p><a href="http://www.geckoboard.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.geckoboard.com</a>
cdjkabout 12 years ago
I use gnucash. It works fairly well, but the leap to double-entry accounting might be a little strange if you've only used quicken (but a good thing to learn in the long run).<p>I've been meaning to switch to ledger/hledger, which is command line based, but haven't switched yet.
tectonicabout 12 years ago
Ledger and Reckon on the command line<p><a href="http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2013/02/16/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2013/02/16/command-line-a...</a>
raintreesabout 12 years ago
Excel/OpenCalc.