Software installation, accounting settings, chart of accounts, started capital.
Keywords: free and open-source double-entry accounting software.
* the easiest way to install and try Beigesoft™ EIS is installing it on an Android device, because of you don't need to install the Java and the crypto-provider in this case, see Beigesoft™ EIS for Android.
Bob Brown from NY decided to start his own pizza business as sole proprietor. Bob's Pizza makes frozen pizza, so according to NYS. sales taxable food he isn't a sales tax vendor. Bob read IRS 583 Starting a business and elected:
calendar tax year
account Inventory to calculate costs that decrease his income tax, so he has to use accrual accounting method.
FIFO method for pizza ingredients whose cost can't be recognized (e.g. eggs) according IRS Accounting Periods and Methods
Bob chose Beigesoft™ EIS because it's free, it does everything that he needs, it's easy to install and use. In addition, it works as standalone WEB application on a notebook and on an Android tablet with the same SQLite database. Bob can send database from his notebook to his tablet and vise versa. In the future (when it'll be needed) Bob can publish his database on the cloud, Beigesoft™ EIS is ready for high load job. You are able to transfer full data from any EIS's SQlite database into high performance (enterprise ready) MySql or PostgreSql database by using WEB-service (see Import an EIS database by using WEB-service).
Bob installed Java SE 8 (JRE8 from the official Oracle web-site) and Google Chrome on his notebook (Chromium or Opera will do too). Bob downloaded beige-accjet-bin.zip from central Maven repository https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.beigesoft%22 or https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/beigesoft/beige-accjet/. He extracted the ZIP archive then launched the JAR file beige-accjet-jar-with-dependencies.jar by double click on it or right click and choose Java. You can start any executable JAR from command line (synonyms - "terminal", "command prompt", "power shell") by type command:
java -jar beige-accjet-jar-with-dependencies.jar
Bob should see window like this: