[QUOTEif you dont like the project dont contribute[/QUOTE]
Be nice now. I have asked for all thoughts. For and Against. A true brain storm of thoughts.

I will agree that my original thoughts were to fill out all data one the two forms mentioned. That is really way out of my reach. Nice dream, but maybe someone will be able to help with that?

I love this statement on the home page, "could be and should be done differently".

Here is what brought me to this subject of a bookkeeping module, "money". Two years ago I bought a copy of Microsoft Money for Business. I used it for a few months until I found its inventory management was not FIFO and it only allowed 2 decimals for the cost of a product. So I put that program away and started working the business data into spreadsheets. I am comfortable with spreadsheets but I think I can do better. So I went to a Microsoft event in Nashville and got a free copy of Office 2007. Downloaded the package which included Microsoft Accounting Pro 2007. Pretty cool but way overkill for what I and maybe lots of others really need. In order to use QB with inventory management I would need to get the Pro edition. I retired from GM two years before my wife will be able to teach at the local schools. That puts me in a no spend mode for the next 2 years. I have more time than money. If I am not over at grandmas watching wheel of fortune, I am working on my store.

This is what I need. Maybe others can add to it.
Calculate income from one date to another (Already done with Sales Report)
Enter expenses related to each sale. Like transaction fees and shipping. (see preview)
Enter other expenses like advertising and office.
Enter the wholesale purchase and shipping into inventory and cost of goods sold.
Push a button anytime to see the value of my inventory.
Push a button and get and cost of the goods that I sold and the stores expenses for the year.
I dont need records for employees or depreciation or manufacturing.

The reason I brought the IRS corporate form into the subject is because as small as I am, the business really should be a corporation. And someday I will. You don't have to be big to own a corporation, you just give the state a few hundred dollars each year for the privilege.

Folks, I may be completely washed up here, but I think the code will be only on a few pages and not over 100KB. Go ahead get the soap and water bucket but I don't think this is going to be complicated as long as the goals are kept simpler than originally thought.

Anyone what to help? raise you hands and clap.