{"id":24,"date":"2009-02-01T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/2009-02-01\/gnucash-for-windows"},"modified":"2009-02-01T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T22:25:00","slug":"gnucash-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/gnucash-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"GnuCash for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started a <a href=\"http:\/\/sentosa.us\/\">consulting company<\/a> in 2006, I decided to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnucash.org\/\">GnuCash<\/a> for my business books, since I was already familiar with it from home use.  It is very well-suited for business accounting, since it uses standard accounting terminology and double entry.  When it was time to prepare my corporate taxes, I called my dad (an accountant) to explain basic business accounting to me&#8230; closing out the books for the year, and all that jazz.  I really wanted to share my GnuCash file with him, but that was not possible, since he uses Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I discovered that GnuCash has been <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/gnucash\/\">ported to Windows<\/a> (since version 2.2.0 in August of 2007).  This is HUGE.  With the whole &#8220;interoperability&#8221; stumbling block out the way, small businesses have one more reason to use open source software like GnuCash and Linux. I imagine that soon, if not already, business owners will be able to send their GnuCash data files directly to their accountants, just like they do today with their QuickBooks files.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in preparation for March 15th (tax day for corporations), I installed GnuCash on my dad&#8217;s Windows PC, and he took a look at my books.<\/p>\n<p>GnuCash, FTW!<\/p>\n<p>I do have one question, though.  During the installation, the GnuCash installer mentioned something about &#8220;Installing Windows firewall rules.&#8221;  That scares me a little.  If you know why it does this, leave a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started a consulting company in 2006, I decided to use GnuCash for my business books, since I was already familiar with it from home use. It is very well-suited for business accounting, since it uses standard accounting terminology and double entry. When it was time to prepare my corporate taxes, I called my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}