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

[Derek Atkins]

Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> writes:

> The rest, though, needs to be able to be done by everyday people without deep
> accounting knowledge. The system should hold the accounting knowledge, the
> people should just have to do the work. :-)

Unfortunately "doing the work" sometimes involves SOME amount of
accounting knowledge.  Accounting is all about transfering value from
one place to another.  These places are called "Accounts".  Every
transaction moves value from one account to another.  Some accounts
correspond to Bank accounts, but others are virtual in nature.  Still,
the person doing the work needs to know where the money came from and
where it went in order to enter it into the system.

I'm not sure where your boundary is between that and "holding accounting
knowledge".

-derek

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