Hi there, getting on top of accounting these days. I use gnucash (http://gnucash.org/), a Free and Open Source software for personal and small-business accounting - Gnome-based, featuring double-entry bookkeeping, and available for Linux. Mac and Windows. The ledger is xml-based, and can be shared with board members.
Sadly gnucash scripting is Scheme-based (yuck), so I use a second FLOSS project called jgnucashlib (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgnucashlib/) for scriptable tasks - as of today, for the PayPal transaction import, since that's where the bulk of the movement happens (currently ~10-20 per day). Taken all together, I think a suitable choice for our entity - and hopefully flexible and portable enough that it can be handed over and/or shared easily. Up to now, mostly Florian and me have collected invoices, filed them, and did the budget planning. To permit sharing responsibilities there, and also to make it a bit easier for us to keep information together, I propose to setup a private treasurer@tdf mailing list. Budget updates, invoices, expense reports, and also board decisions regarding budget approvals then need to be sent to that list, such that we can accurately reflect them in the ledger. Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
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