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

submitted 9 months ago by vurr@lemmy.today to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

I use GnuCash, because it's the only FOSS accounting package that sensibly handle transactions that involve more than two accounts (aka "splits") at a time. There's a bit of a learning curve if you're new to double-entry accounting, but it does support CSV import, can manually reconcile its records to whatever statement period you want, and can export to graphs or spreadsheets as needed.

It is, however, strictly a desktop app, and is wholly a separate endeavour to *GnuCash for Android". That said, one reason that I've continued to use GnuCash for the better part of a decade is because the UI basically doesn't change. There's not much room for enshittification when it's all GTK-based. Anything else I want from this program, I can do using Python by crunching the data exported as a CSV file.