Using Excel As Quickbooks Replacement

[99m]

My mother-in-law doesn't want to pay for an upgrade to Quickbooks to
manage her small rental/sales property business. Has anyone found it
fairly easy to duplicate the effort in Excel so that one could just
stick with that? Or, is there a template out there that you would
recommend using to do this?

 

[Gary''s Student]

I have not found an exact duplicate, but start looking in:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=TC&Query=accounting

for some ideas