FreeCoins - Free & open source money management software for Palm OS
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We work hard to make money. But we never work as hard to manage the money that we make. That is why, some of us “finished” their hard earned money even before the end of the month.
Most of us spend more than we could earn. And most of the things that we spend on to are not necessary. Try differentiate things that you are planning to buy next by labeling it to either “needs” or “wants”. You may then realize how much have you spent on unnecessary things…
If you think that you spend most of your money to the things that you “want”, and end up broke before the end of the month, then you should track your spending habits with some of the best free money management software around.
FreeCoins
For me, FreeCoins is one of the best free and open source money management software for Palm OS (which I use with my Treo 680) that I have used so far. There are other proprietary software to manage money in Palm OS, but I don’t think it is necessary for me to spend money when you could get something that is compatible and free like FreeCoins. Although the development of the program/software stopped on May 22, 2006, the program has been running smoothly, and I have been using it to budget and track my monthly spendings.
The only thing that FreeCoins can’t do for me is to import/export the database files to .QIF or even .CSV, as I planned to integrate it with Gnucash and jGnash, 2 of the best money management software which you could install in your Windows.
FreeCoins is a full-featured accounting program (similar to GnuCash) for the Palm OS released under GPL.
Some of the features in the program are:
- available in multiple languages (French and German at the moment)
- Manual
- Integrated calculator for speed-entering transactions
- International number format support
- accounts structured in trees
- Autocompletion for speedy entries
- double entry bookkeeping
- cleared/uncleared transactions (can be viewed separately and the views can be remembered)
- separate cleared/uncleared/available balances
- transactions can be scheduled (very useful for direct debits/standing orders)
- totals for the current account, current category and all accounts in all categories
I just hope that the development of the software could continue, as to improve the usability of the software in the future.
drizad :: Apr.12.2008 :: Accounting :: No Comments »
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