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Welcome

"The US is the home of Open Source and TurboCASH is here to free your business. Thank you for choosing TurboCASH for your Accounting. We hope your journey will be a happy and enriching experience, Enjoy using TurboCASH as much as we did making it." - Philip Copeman, Project Leader.

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Registration

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News

  • Sales Tax in the US remains a complicated process. Each state has different rules and this effectively means a set of books for each of over 50 different "countries". TurboCASH does work for all States, but each user will need to configure their books for their state. There are services that will provide up to date sales tax codes and rates for an annual charge. A Free resource and description of the State Sales tax codes can be found at Wikipedia.

You can get a detailed description of taxes for your state from our full list of US tax information


  • There is a business opportunity to distribute TurboCASH CD's
  • There is a business opportuntiy to "Translate" Accounting Made Easy into US terminology.
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Development

Image:Globe48.png The US is an has been a market dominated by Quickbooks for nearly 20 years. Our goal for 2010 is to write a Quickbooks ocnverter that will make it easy for users to switch systems.


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Downloads

Image:Tip2.png The power of TurboCASH is that the same installation of TurboCASH works in over 20 languages and in over 50 countries. You can use this program for a business with no accountant up to a business with 50 accountants. This ability to work in so many environments is a major boon for TurboCASH. New releases are available to everyone instantly.

Use the Upload Menu (Left of Wiki Page)to upload a zip file of your Country set of books and any extras that may be relevant. For example:

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Accounting Made Easy

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Small business owners, who want a fast track entry to running their accounts.


Consultants, dealers and integrators that want to quickly understand how the TurboCASH program uses the traditional accounting model.

Accountants who want a quick introduction to computerised accounting or to find out how the thousands of TurboCASH users work.

Users of other accounting systems that find their training systems expensive or cumbersome. Accounting Made Easy will prepare you for TurboCASH and other SME systems

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USA Version of TurboCASH

This section deals with resources specifically for TurboCASH in the USA. We have recently had a very strong uptake of registrations from the USA. This means that there is a really strong support for Open Source in the US.

TurboCASH does work with the US conditions, we are currently busy ensuring that TurboCASH is optimised for the USA.


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Official Languages

The language codes, followed by the country code, is as follows:

  • en-us - English United States (American English)
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Topics of Discussion

  • We need to confirm with the users and CPAs if ExampleUSA is an ideal set of books. In my mind (your project leader) it is a bit old fashioned and needs categories like Internet Expenses, Mobile Phone Bills, etc.
  • The problem of Tax codes is vexing. There must be around 1000 sales tax codes, different for each county. There are companies that will offer these tax rates as monthly updates for a fee. Starts at about $ 99 per user per year. It takes quite a commitment to ensure accuracy. I can't decide whether this should be done as a paid service or as a community effort. I could try to negotiate a bulk purchase. We currently have around 3000 US registrations, so we will get some buying power. Please send any thoughts to philip@pinksoft.co.za
  • TurboCASH has a really powerful XML messaging system to "talk" to other systems. This will make a strong basis for developing plugins.
  • We have a generic sales tax report that reports on categories. I need confirmation from a CPA that our report conforms to that required by the IRS.
  • Generally still need accountants to check the terminology.
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US Invoicing

  • What makes US Accounting challenging is that it is like dealing with 50 separate countries.
    • Set up Tax sub accounts for each County
    • For each regular Customer, assign them a default TaxAccount Code. This can be overwritten per line item, but if set up correctly one should work consistently.


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EXAMPLE-US

EXAMPLE-US is an abridged version of the Chart of Accounts Below. It is based on the Classic US, 5 Digit Main, 3 Digit Sub Accounts Codes. Balance Sheet Items are first, Income/Expense Accounts are Second.

Image:Tip.png To get the Chart of Accounts:
  • Download 3-754 from Sourceforge.
  • Click on this link EXAMPLE-US to download it. After Download, unzip the EXAMPLE-US file to the TCASH3 or your TurboCASH installation directory.


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