I want cheap accounting software that accumulates totals

You know how you lose the money budgeted if you don't spend it? Well I want a real low cost accounting system that will enable me to keep an accumulating balance in an income/expense catagory.

Example: My wife and I put $5 away each week for 'going out to dinner'. We want to see that after 12 weeks there is $60 in the 'going out to dinner' catagory. We need some low-cost software to enable us to do this.

Any recommendations?

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Familyman
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Steve

There is no accounting package in Open Office. Perhaps you meant Free Accounting?

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You should be able to do that with virtually any spreadsheet, bookkeeping/accounting software, personal financial management software - **IF** you have some basic familiarity with the software and some basic understanding of what you really want and how you want to do it.

One person suggested Open Office (presumably meaning the spreadsheet module). You may already have a spreadsheet - Lotus, Corel and Microsoft Works "suites" are included free or as a very low-cost option on many new computers. They are also widely and inexpensively available in computer, book, and office supplies stores, and by download from the Internet - as also are Microsoft Money and Quicken.

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You really don't need software for that.

Sock away your weekly $5 in a 'dinner' jar in the kitchen and make an entry in the paper log beside it the date and time of the last 'donation'.

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Joe Canuck

Off course I can make you one, depending what you want to have

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m65

Is this an shareware version? or a limited version of the software. because I can't find price, and neither it is an open source... So what 's this freeaccounting ?

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m65

Yes I have Excell and MS Access. Excell would be OK if I could protect the formula from other users changing the speadsheet. My family will be entering data too.

I want a data entry screen and although I can make this in Access, I can't make the reports that I want.

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Familyman

To the best of my knowledge Excel has had the ability to protect the contents of cells in every version since #1 or #2 in about 1980. Look up "Protect" (or "Protection") in Help.

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