To be fair, I never had a problem with our accountants either and my work placed me in very close contact with many practices when Clients wanted to computerise their accounts and I always got on very well with them.
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@callpaul.eu How about GnuCash? I never used it, but it might be sufficient for your needs.
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I had a look. It seems more than adequate. It is cross-platform too.
It would be nice to support a Gnu initiative.
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And it’s localized in French as well! 
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I will pass the link on and await the reaction. It could be slow on that side as we are getting ready for our end of year assembly general and it election year so depends who gets the votes and if re elected. Current Trésorier wants to be président so that leaves his role empty…… bloody politics, I want to remain doing my little bit on computing and sound systems if re elected.
Will keep you posted
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This is off topic but I just can’t believe how much your town/community is connected and have all kinds of things going on. I barely know some of my neighbors’ names and have some chats with some people who also have dogs near my home when we meet with our dogs 
Maybe it is just our thing here in north I love the fact that nobody “cares of” anybody near them! I don’t mean to be rude, it’s just so different here. We just cope with our neighbors and I bet everyone would like to live in a cabin somewhere where no one can find their way:face_with_hand_over_mouth: And I live in our capital city.
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Life here is different, dont forget its a naturist village, so everyone is naked (weather permitting)so no dress code to compair all equal, second its a holiday resort so although many live here year round we have activities for holiday makers during the summer, easter to October mainly. Part of our community charges are transfered to our association to organise these events but backed up with a team of unpaid volunteers like myself.
Being originally from the UK, I consider that even after 20 years, I am a guest in france, so I need to put back into our village more than I take. Today I was teaching stand up paddleboard, friday will set up the sound system for a conference. Tomorrow I will set up and take down the sports equipment for the aqua gym, followed by removing a dive platform and beach volley-ball nets.
I love the felling when I walk through our village and being greeted with a smile, bonjour and many knowing my first name.
Perhaps your answer is to smile as you pass someone and say hello. Not just at the pretty girls !
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It is like that in our Capital cities too, but not in regional areas like where we live.
When we go into the Post Office or smaller shops , I get a friendly “Hello Neville”.
In Church, there might be 200 people for a service, but everyone knows everyone.
I think it is a numbers thing. The larger the town the more anonymous you become.
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Not open source, but the desktop (non cloud edition) of this software is free, it did my books very well until I was forced to go for a more mainstream solution.
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OFF: that’s a typical difference between village/small town and big cities over here too.
In small towns and villages there are much more personal contacts, in big cities we barely know the neghbours.
Edit: I just noticed @nevj wrote the same nust different worded.
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You should check ErpNext and GNU Cash
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GNU cash for me. I have used it for about 8 years to run 2 businesses. It runs local and that is a requirement for me. I have used quickbooks and quickbooks cloud version in the past and prefer GNU cash.
I manually but quickly download qfx files from my bank accounts and it only takes about a minute. It could be automated but i don’t see the need. I have a complete chart of accounts, expense, income, assets and liabilities. I use US accounting model but it also does European. I track customers and receivables, issue invoices, and do budgeting an reporting. Its all free. I only run linux and it is GNU is very stable.
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Thanks TurabG and Stephenl, your suggestions are noted and passed on to our Trésorier
Welcome to our community look forward to your future interactions on the site.
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Sorry I have been out of touch lately.
While I have used Gnucash for our small construction business, I like Frappe Books better. The setup was easily customizable for Chart of Accounts, beginning balances, etc. and the dashboard has easy access to adding services, products, etc. so that jobs get categorized by those services.
Invoices and estimates can utilize the products I have entered and yet the cost can be modified on a per job basis.
This makes for great reports in analyzing whether or not to continue certain services/products.
The only trouble I have had with any of these apps is getting the data from the bank. We use a smallish local credit union and they no longer offer .CSV, etc for download–only PDF. The new method of connecting your bank to download transactions (to avoid entry by hand), if available in any accounting app, usually does not have our bank. But I figured out how to get the PDF data imported, it is just a bit of a mess to clean that up, but ease of copy/paste works for me.
I rarely need a P&L or Balance sheet, but the option is there if I do, as well as other reports used for year end taxes.
While GnuCash resembles my old general ledger pads and is a familiar format with bookkeepers like myself, the clean interface in Frappe Books suits me.
The other method I have used for years is to setup a workbook in LO Calc with my chart of accounts and transactions linked to the correct account from a drop down I created. This allows me to use Pivot Tables for gathering data at year end for taxes. Of course, you would need the expertise of understanding how this all works together to set that up, not only from the accounting standpoint but spreadsheet expertise as well.
Just my two cents.
Shelia Flanagan
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Superb shelia, a great help. All passed on to our Trésorier awaiting his décision
He keeps talking sage accounting but that starts at 35 euros per month, so expensive….. after I thought the idea of accountants was to save money !
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My current credit union has budgeting and sorting software built in to its website, so I don’t even keep a check register. But in the old days, I was perfectly served by KMyMoney, a very solid program.
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Fine for home users but not sure for association
Paul
Your best option i suggest you go for Quick Books Online
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I’d never put my financial stuff on a US-based online service. Thus, I find your recommendation rather doubtful.
BTW, welcome to the forum!
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As our trésor is french think he will struggle with your suggestion and he is also not keen on online solutions he struggles with Google sheets
But thanks for the idea
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