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Sql-Ledger can also be used for personal stuff. It is much more business
oriented than is GnuCash. GnuCash is much more like Quicken (NOT
Quickbooks). Since it only runs on a single machine (OK. It can use an
NFS shared file storage but not multi-access. The Postgresql backend was
not complete enough the last time I was testing it) it is not suitable
for a business where more than 1 person needs to hit the books.

There are a few people on the Sql-Ledger mailing list using it for
personal finance as well. Most of these also have a business so adding
another "company" is no big deal for handling the personal finances.

GnuCash has something that SQL-ledger does not: the ability to import
Quicken files. (Then import from gnucash to sql-ledger... ;). SQL-Ledger
can import lots of data from Quickbooks. The last version of Quicken I
used was from '99 (we _refused_ to do the 2000 upgrade once we found out
about the data exchange process with Intuit) and it's exporting of
reports and data was horrid. Not much more than print to a file with a
really ugly format that can't be slurped readily into a spreadsheet.
Gnucash took nearly 45 minutes on a fast AMD w/0.5GB RAM to import the
quicken file. It still took some manual tweaking but gnucash prompted
for input with some reasonable suggestions.

So to answer the question "Can SQL-Ledger be used for personal
finance?". I would say "yes, with reservations". If the personal finance
was a subset of a larger business operation, using the same tools for
both would be an advantage. Otherwise, gnucash or MoneyDance is much
simpler (for the most part) and "feels" more like a personal finance
program.
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