Skrooge

Skrooge is a personal finances manager for KDE4, aiming at being simple and intuitive. It allows you to keep track of your expenses and incomes, categorize them, and build reports of them. Skrooge is a part of KDE Extragear, in the Office module

Overview

What a strange name !

Yes, it is ;-) It has been inspired by Dicken's A Christmas Carol tale, where an grumpy old man, named Ebenezer Scrooge, turns good after receiving the visit of three ghosts on Christmas night.

Some people may also see the reference to Walt Disney's famous character, Scrooge Mc Duck, which was also inspired by the aforementioned book.

What can I do with skrooge ?

• Keep track of your incomes and expenses
• See how you spend your money
• Manage your investments and see how they perform over time
• Manage several accounts

Features

• Graphical reports
• Several tabs to help you organize your work
• Infinite undo/redo (even after the file was closed !)
• Instant filtering on operations and reports
• Infinite categories levels
• Mass update of operations
• Scheduled operations
• Track refund of your expenses
• Powerful Search and Process functions

Installing Skrooge

The recommended way is to install Skrooge using your distribution's package management tool.

However, Skrooge being a quite young application, it is possible that it is not yet available in repositories. You should of course bug the distro's packagers to include it, but in the mean time you can compile and install skrooge yourself, it is not that difficult.

Ubuntu Specifities

Ubuntu's policy is not to propose the latest software versions, but rather to focus on stability. For that reason, it is possible that the skrooge version available in official repositories is several versions behind the latest stable from developpers.

To install the last version on ubuntu, you need to add the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

For jaunty:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/s-mankowski/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/s-mankowski/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 

For karmic:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/s-mankowski/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/s-mankowski/ppa/ubuntu karmic main 

• Open a terminal and enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 796FFDFC 

• Finally, tell Ubuntu to re-load the details of each software archive it knows about:

sudo apt-get update 

• Install skrooge:

sudo apt-get install skrooge 

Importing existing data

If you are a user of other personal finances managers, you may import your existing data from these, using one of the following formats :

• OFX
• QIF
• CSV

Discussion was also started with the KMyMoney team for a more efficient way to exchange files between these two KDE applications.

Getting Help

• Documentation: in case the Skrooge Handbook is not installed on your machine, you can browse it online.
• Forum: you may also seek assistance in the KDE forums, in the Office & Productivity section.
• IRC: skrooge developpers try to hang in the #skrooge channel. Some users may also help in #kde.