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Free Accounting Software Download – Small Business Free Financial Accounting Package

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GNU Cash is a free accounting software package very suitable for small business & home offices.

GNU Cash is an open source packaged free accounting software & is popular among home office owners & stay at home workers.

GnuCash is personal and small-business free financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. Being an open source software, GNU cash also lets you develop & enhance the free financial software further.

You can download the personal & small business finance software GNU Cash for free.

Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.

GNU Cash is available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

The GNU Cash Wiki site provides a lot of information on installations, new developments & enhancements to the free financial software & on language translations.