[ale] GnuCash (Was: Re: [OT] Home PBX?)

[Jim Kinney]

If gnucash makes them run then they REALLY should stay away from sql-ledger!

They should probably stay away from accounting in general, as well.

The reason quackbooks makes such a wad of cash is they make it easy
for idiots to use. They also violate EVERY accounting "best practices"
rule there is. Nothing from quackbooks is usable to a CPA. Quackbooks
is NOT double-entry accounting.

SQL-ledger has a more user-support friendly fork called LedgerSMB.

Compiere is a full-blown ERP application. Commercial support
available. Multi-user.



On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 08:30 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> The funny thing is that although it apparently takes intelligence to
>> “get” accounting is that at the same time accounting becomes very
>> routine and boring to those of us who do “get” it which is why I made
>> the move into IT long ago.
>
> I _could_ do it on paper if I wanted to.  I took a few accounting
> classes, though I am sure that I'd have to look some things up again.
> In fact, I do, because I've found that I'm not recording everything in
> the best manner possible, but that's easy enough for me to fix.
>
> What I truly want to do is have the accounting system mostly be
> self-maintaining.  GC brings me awfully close to that, IMHO, but I know
> at least two or three people that when they see GC they run.  :-)
>
> Abstraction is the key!
>
>         --- Mike
>
> --
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> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>                                    --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>
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