Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:43:46 +0000 From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: lipsey@msu.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Business port Message-ID: <459448A2.1000106@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061228190854.GA32742@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20061228190854.GA32742@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been rummaging through ports wondering if there might be > a utility or couple of utilities to handle bookkeeping for a > small membership organization. > > I know little of accounting and such, so don't know how to > interpret the scanty pkg-descr tidbits that accompany the ports. > So, some amplification would be helpful. > > It would need to keep records for about 500 members (say under 1000 > for good measure - more is, of course OK), including membership, > participation and official responsibilities (such as board oficer, etc). > It would also need to keep accounts, regular receipts from members, > non-members, services and payouts for expenses and also remissions to > an umbrella organization. The ability to generate regular reports for > the membership, plus year-end reports for tax purposes would be important. > The ability to cut checks and keep a record would be a significant plus. > > So, does anyone know of something good along this line in the open > source freeware world that would run on FreeBSD - whether currently > in the ports or not? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > I cant promise its right for you but have you looked at gnucash? (finance/gnucash) (http://www.gnucash.org/) last time i looked it was about the best open source accounts package (that was a year or so ago though and i never really used it as my requirements can still be met with a spreadsheet ;) Vince > Thank you for any useful information you can provide. > > ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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