Ask HN: Double Entry Accounting Software for Personal Use
Why do I want to do this you might ask? Couple of reasons 1st is that I’d actually like to look at my financials from a 3 statement perspective on an accrual basis. For example I often find myself buying plane tickets for the next few months all at once – mint/quicken would look at this and say you just went way over budget for travel, but I’d rather book those as assets on my personal balance sheet, see the hit to my cash flow statement, and recognize the expense in the months that I travel. Also, given that I have considerable business expenses that I run through my personal accounts that I get reimbursed for, reconciling those items can be pretty annoying if can’t make manual journal entries. For the record Wave accounting is the closest thing that I‘ve found, but would prefer something that runs locally. Requirements:
1. has a true GUI (so no ledger/hledger)
2. Runs on either windows or os x (would consider cloud based, but prefer not)
3. You can run reports (i.e. Income statement for x period, or payments in this category or vendor)
4. You can download bank/credit card statements (automatically would be preferred, but would settle for manual)
5. Is being actively developed supported
6. it doesn’t have to support investment/brokerage accounts