What do you use for keeping track of expenses and income (lemmy.today)

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So I'm considering just using excel to keep track of all my expenses and income, but is there a better solution? What do you use to track how you spend money? I want something from which I can freely export the data if need be so excel is tempting.

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[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

GnuCash.

[-] linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us 1 points 2 months ago

Upvotes and a reply because gnucash does it all.

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The one GnuCash weakness is cost basis accounting. I use LibreOffice Calc for that.

Technically it can do some of that but it often not general enough.

[-] QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Fantastic software. I have every single transaction from the last ~8 years recorded in GnuCash. Highly recommend!

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