On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:04:27 +0100 Barry Drake wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:38 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: > > I am a Management Accountant, I dislike Sage with a vengeance. I > > prefer Opera my self, but I am an xBase programmer :) > > My wife and I rand a business for years until I retired. Our > accountant got us using Sage, and I thought it was dreadful! I was > going to make some spreadsheets to do the job properly, but instead I > retired and passed Sage on to the nice guy who bought my business. > Best thing I ever did! > > Are there no pre-designed spreadsheet templates out there? A friend > of mine who was chief accountant with the then electricity board > locally wrote his own spreadsheets because he said there was nothing > out there that a professional accountant would use! He was very > computer literate, but not a programmer - and he found spreadsheets > really easy to customise. > > Regards, Barry Drake
My mother used to run a small care home (3 residents) and she did all her accounts on fairly comprehensive, but still easy to understand spreadsheets. Her accountant was happy with it. Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
