Caution:This is an unashamed shout-out to the blogosphere (as some call it) for help. It contains exclamation marks. Here goes…

For the love of God, will someone please code a sensible accounts application for the Mac? I have tried so many, and they’re all shit. This is the best general accounts app I’ve tried, and it’s still annoying beyond belief:

I get this every time I try any transaction (and before you ask, yes I’m familiar with the concepts of double-entry book-keeping). All I want to do is throw my sales invoices, receipts and bank details into a big black box of an app and sort stuff as and when. I don’t feel the need to “balance” my books every three seconds, I’m not that anal. I want to do this willy nilly, in any old order. I don’t mind setting up general accounts and so forth in advance (e.g. Expenses - travel, Sales - Client 1, Expenses - Software, and so on), but then, then please just let me throw my transactions into the system, any old how. I’ll provide dates, amounts and references, but I want you, oh lowly accounts system, to order everything, give me reports, and so forth. Is that so much to ask? Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do, accounting software?!?

Sorry for coming across all rant-y. I appreciate that there are accounting packages out there for Windoze too, but I’m only running Windoze for Notes and Domino… don’t need it for anything else. Frankly I’m buggered if I’m going to throw something as basic as my accounts in to Gates-land when everything else happens on the Mac. A native accounts application shouldn’t be too much to ask, surely? Just a nice wee accounts app on t’Mac? Someone must make one? Pretty please? (Maybe I need to learn Cocoa quick-smart and clean up).

* sob *

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