Can Linux help me balance my checkbook?

[pitupepito2000]

Hi,

I need to balance my checkbook and compare the bank statements to the checks that I have issued. Is there a program in Linux to help me do this?

thanks for the help,
pitupepito

 

[drag]

Personally I prefer spreadsheets to money programs. You just have to program all the math and stuff yourself, but once you get it set up, it's a breeze to use. Openoffice has a excell clone, and there are a few others that may be better.

Other then that. You can try out GNUCash. The open source accounting software.

But if you want to know what the pro's use it's spreadsheets all the way, baby. (my dad is a accountant) 😛

 

[pitupepito2000]

thanks,

anybody have other opinions

 

[xSauronx]

i didnt like gnucash for some reason when i tried it

anyway, a spreadsheet probably is much easier for comaprison. personally, i print out mya ccount activity and grab a pen, and mark out things in the book/on the account sheet as they show up because....one day i did that, and then continued to, bah

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
i didnt like gnucash for some reason when i tried it

anyway, a spreadsheet probably is much easier for comaprison. personally, i print out mya ccount activity and grab a pen, and mark out things in the book/on the account sheet as they show up because....one day i did that, and then continued to, bah

I use a spreadsheet too..... But then I don't have any checking accounts to balance, sooo......

 

[drag]

Here's a simple way to keep a checking account orginized using gnumeric spreadsheet (gnu clone of Excel).

In column A lable it "deposits"
In column B lable it "withdraws"
In column C lable it "date" (if you care about that)
In column A you put all your deposits and in column B you put all your deposits. You can have spaces in the rows, so that your deposits can line up correctly with the day and withdraws to make it human readable.

Then you can put dates in C so that you can remember when you wrote what check. Hell you could put the check number in a nother column if you want.

Then you skip a row to make things legable then you lable that total deposits and go to the little box at the top and lable the box underneath it. (In my example it would be column E row 3) =SUM(A:A)

Then you do the same with the column next column over and lable that "withdrawl totals". Go down to F3 lable that =SUM(B:B)

Then one more column (G by now) lable that "current balance", goto G3 and lable that one =E3-F3

Then whala! every number you add to column A increase the total balance and all numbers added to B get taken from the total balance. Insta check balancer. All you have to do then is just enter the check amounts and deposits, the spreadsheet takes care of the math automaticly.

Do your taxes, keep track of stocks! Make little pie charts, interact with corporate databases!!! Weeee! welcome to the wonderfull wacky world of accounting.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: drag
Do your taxes, keep track of stocks! Make little pie charts, interact with corporate databases!!! Weeee! welcome to the wonderfull wacky world of accounting.

You might want to lay off the caffeine there just a tad...

:beer:😀

 

[sciencewhiz]

Yes, it is easier to balance your checkbook with linux, because you aren't making payments to M$ ;-)

I used gnucash for a month or so. I like it better then quicken. However, at this point, I don't have enough bills that I can't keep track of it in my head.