Project management and costing

Tom Gardner · 2006-10-12T03:38:07+00:00

Somewhere along the line we changed into a real business...not my fault! Now it seems I have to be accountable to the books with "capitalization, depreciation, allocation of resources, tracking, time lines, pert charts and such. It used to be we just expensed most everything but now I'm directed to toe the line.One of the engineers wants to adopt "Microsoft Project" but my fear is more time will be spent working the software than making chips. Another wants to guess percentages of time divided among projects. Is anybody familiar with this type of problem and would make recommendations?

Oct 12, 2006 25 Replies

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Tom Wait 19 years ago

I too am looking for a reasonably priced accounting program for my gunsmithing business. I use checks and plastic for most expenditures. I tried Quickbooks once a long time ago and didn't like it. Tom

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Leon Fisk 19 years ago

Hi Gunner,

This should be required reading for anyone still using Quickbooks:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:rRDu7waxgEoJ:

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and

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:GRnxJrxeNmYJ:

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There was a few other gripes too, but these should be sufficient to get the idea. Scan the comments on these pages. There are several recommendations made for other software that might be worth checking out. Peachtree is commonly mentioned if I recall correctly.

I haven't used any of them, just read about people complaints...

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marc.britten 19 years ago

A long time ago when I ran a tiny business I used gnucash. Its Linux (UNIX) only however.

It was a bit clumsy but probably more because I wasn't really used to running a business.

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Ned Simmons 19 years ago

I use Quickbooks version 6, which dates back to 1998, and have always been happy with it. I have not heard good things about more recent releases. Here's a copy of V6 on ebay...

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It does run fine on NT, win2000, and XP. One thing that would concern me about a NOS copy of V6 is whether Intuit will issue a registration code for such an old product. Another worry is whether it'll get stuffed by some future Windows release.

Oh, I do have one complaint, and that is that the IRS revised form 941 (quarterly reporting) not too long ago, so the printed form that my Quickbooks generates is no longer acceptable.

Ned Simmons

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Steve Ackman 19 years ago

Their site says: "GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX."

From the FreeBSD port info:

Description: Quicken-like money and finance manager Its features include: