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How to Run Your Small Business With Free Open Source Software

Take a look at the next desktop PC or laptop you come across. Odds are good it won't be running an open-source operating system. Microsoft's closed-source Windows has by far the highest share of the PC client operating system market, followed in a distant second by Apple's Mac OS X. Linux and other wholly open source operating systems have only a tiny market share.

It's not hard to see why. Despite the advances made by distributions such as Ubuntu, desktop Linux is still miles behind Windows and OS X in terms of the look, the feel and the slickness that most office workers have come to expect. The vast majority of companies simply aren't prepared to make office workers use an open source OS - and most office workers aren't prepared to use them, either.

Even if you want to stick with a closed source operating system (or, the case of OS X, partially closed source), your business can still take advantage of a vast amount of open source software. The most attractive benefit of doing so: It's generally available to download and run for nothing. While support usually isn't available for such free software, it's frequently offered at an additional cost by the author or a third party. It may be included in a low-cost commercially licensed version as well.

Is it possible, then, to run a business entirely on software that can be downloaded for free? There certainly are many options that make it possible - and many more that aren't included in this guide.

Report: Open Source Should Come First When Choosing New Enterprise IT

Paul Rubens is a technology journalist based in England. Contact him at paul@rubens.org. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn.

Open Source Office Productivity Suites

Very few companies using Microsoft Office actually require support from Microsoft, so using an open source alternative can make good financial sense. Open-source suites are compatible with Microsoft Office file formats such as .doc and .xls. Though their feature sets aren't quite as comprehensive as Office, that's unlikely to matter - most people only use a fraction of the available features available anyway.

Here are four open source alternatives to Microsoft Office:

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CCH Acquires Accounting Software Company Best Practice Solutions

CCH Acquires Accounting Software Company Best Practice Solutions

Research proves SMEs want their Accountants to provide them with more strategic business advice. The addition to the CCH iFirm suite of BPS accounting software solutions like ATO Paper Buster alone can free up around 1,000 annual hours of an Accountants time for providing that advice

SYDNEY, Australia (14 November 2013) CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, today announced the acquisition of the business operated by Melbourne-based accounting software company, Best Practice Solutions (BPS). This acquisition will significantly expand CCHs ability to provide a holistic software-plus-content solution to accounting firms in Australia and New Zealand so that they can better serve their clients who operate Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).

Headlining 2013 research of over 1,000 SMEs commissioned by CCH shows that SMEs trust their accountant ahead of their financial planner, business partner or lawyer when it comes to which external adviser they trust most, yet only 37% of accountants are sufficiently freed up from transactional work to be able to provide them that strategic business advice.

A natural extension of the content and software already provided by CCH, the addition of BPS software solutions will better equip Accounting Firms with a single source of authoritative and practical information, software and services to become that keenly-sought trusted advisor to their SME clients.

Mr Russell Evans, President of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer of CCH Asia Pacific, said this is why clients of BPS and CCH will benefit significantly from the acquisition.

We welcome the addition of the BPS team and its fantastic accounting software products to Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting. Our CCH iFirm cloud software suite and BPS revolutionary ATO Paper Buster product is proven to save an accounting firm around 1,000 hours a year so we will make it even easier for accountants to be that trusted adviser to their SME clients, Mr Evans said. SMEs are often cited as the engine room of the Australian economy, but this should more accurately be described as successful SMEs.

Mr Ron Drost, founder and Director of BPS, said the BPS team is looking forward to working with its new CCH colleagues.

We are very excited about joining Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, whose services set global standards. This acquisition demonstrates a clear commitment to investing in leading Australian Intellectual Property and builds on the strengths of both organisations, as well as enhancing our services to our clients and customers.

CCH will be retaining all BPS employees and BPS clients can expect to receive the same high levels of service and attention to detail that they have become accustomed to, as well as newly-available software and content solutions that can further improve their efficiency, productivity and profitability, Mr Drost continued.

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Free software to display the contents of ISO 20022 electronic bank statements

LUGANO, Switzerland, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The free version of the Banana Accounting Spreadsheet Software (Starter Edition) for Windows, Mac and Linux, now allows the user to view and print the contents of bank statement files in ISO 20022 format.

From January 1, 2014, all banks on the European continent will be required to provide electronic account statements with the international ISO 20022 standard. Those who want to view the contents of the ISO 20022 statements can simply download, install and start Banana Accounting and open (or drag and drop) the ISO 20022 file inside Banana.

The Banana Accounting Spreadsheet software reads the data of the bank statement and displays them in tabular form, with the Date, Description of the transaction, Amount income, Amount expenses and Balance. The data can be printed or transferred in Excel or in other programs with the copy/paste function.

Banana Accounting is a multilingual spreadsheet accounting software available in native versions for Windows, Mac and Linux.

The Starter Edition version is free, and freely downloadable from the site http://www.banana.ch.

With the paid version of Banana Accounting, you can save files that contain more than 70 transactions.

Banana.ch is a software company based in Lugano, Switzerland, founded in 1990 and market leader in the field of accounting for small businesses, associations (not for profit) and individuals.

Banana Accounting is a spreadsheet software for Cash management and Double-entry accounting. Just as in Excel, data can be easily added or edited. Banana Accounting is available in different languages and with native versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. The free version of Banana Accounting (Starter Edition) offers all the features of the full program, except for saving files that contain more than 70 transactions. Over 150'000 Banana Accounting licenses have already been sold worldwide.

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