Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 	As for the first, I believe so. I've kind of forgotten what
> double/single entry bookkeeping is. <Looks up Wikipedia>

Single-entry bookkeeping is for people (like, normal household stuff), e.g. 
quicken. Double-entry is for businesses, e.g. quickbooks.

> automatically updates the groceries and clothes account to reflect this.

But then do you have a "trash" account for when you throw the clothes away 
again? If not, it's still single-entry bookkeeping. :-)

> 	Not sure what you mean by different files. 

You can't have the same account in both a single-entry system and a 
double-entry system, is all I meant. I was clarifying that I didn't want it 
to do single-entry and double-entry bookkeeping at the same time.

> 	I've never checked for single entry capability. But, you know, can't
> you just create a dummy account and use double entry as single entry?

Not as such.

> 	I know they have some download capabilities from banks. I somehow doubt
> it's as convenient as Quicken et. al. You can try it.

OK.  We get account statements with hundreds of lines of stuff on it each 
month, which would be ... tedious to enter by hand. It's already tedious 
just fixing the stuff that the format isn't designed to handle, like stock 
ticker names changing.

> 	Export to tax software - what format does it expect it in? It has no
> custom feature for this - just a generic export command.

There are some fairly standard formats for this, at least in the USA. 
Basically, the file says "add $X to line Y of form Z".

> 	Actually, gnucash handles all my needs quite well, except for budgeting
> which I sorely want. 

When Intuit finishes pissing me off, I'll go read up on gnucash, assuming 
their documentation doesn't suck.

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