financial software packages - does anyone have any advice?

[KittyKatt]

My husband has just taken up the position of Treasurer of his amateur dramatic society. Please does anyone have some advice as to the best financial software package he can use to manage his societies accounts? We are finding Excel a bit tedious!!!
Kitty Katt

[KittyKatt]

[OliveOil]

For school i use Fundsmaster II which is very simple to use for accounting - its for schools though i cant see why you couldnt use it for anythig else.  Look up carn software on google and you can see a demo there.

For anything bigger I like SAGE but it will be too expensive for what you need.

[powerspade]

I run a small business and I use Quicken soft ware for that suits my type of work, however I have just taken over the treasurers post in our Church and I don't find quicken any good as the Church accounts have deferent  demands to ready made soft. So I have designed my own soft ware using spreadsheets and it works very well. In fact I`m so pleased with the result of my work that in the next financial year I`m going to go the spread sheet way with my business book keeping

[Garden Manager]

I use MS Money (now on 2005 version, the latest one). I use it for personal finances but i am sure it could be used to manage club/society finances. Its easy and straghtforward to use for basic income and out goings as well as magaging regular bills etc.

I hope this helps

[grawrc]

I use Money too and I think it would be fine for what you are suggesting. I haven't worked out how it copes with investments - it seems to randomly add interest that isn't accurate, but apart from that it's fine.