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On 05/12/16 03:06, james wrote: |
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> On 12/04/2016 06:49 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:07:59PM +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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>>> I gather both Quickbooks and Sage have a more modular approach to |
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>>> "proper" accounting software applicable to small and large |
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>>> businesses. I |
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>>> know my mother used Quickbooks in the past with good success and the |
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>>> support of her accountant, but Sage is known to be equally |
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>>> accessible. I |
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>>> would imagine there is an appropriate version for not-for-profit or |
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>>> charities, perhaps you can seek advice with the person(s) already |
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>>> contacted for accounting/finance purposes?! |
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>> Our CPA (Yes, we do have one) only recommends QuickBooks, but has used a |
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>> variety of other proprietary systems (none of which he recommends at |
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>> all!). |
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>> The catch is that either Quickbooks or Sage would be a violation of the |
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>> social contract's libre-licence dependence clause. |
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>> Ledger HAS filled most of our needs thus far, but lacks in reporting and |
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>> some automation: |
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>> - I'd love to automatically generate lots of depreciation |
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>> entries, but can't yet. |
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>> - Something to anonymize private information in some entries, so that |
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>> the actual Ledgers can be published for transparency. |
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> All of that is routine and easy with GNUcash.... |
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> hth, |
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> James |
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Grabbing the bull by the horns here, any willing/able volunteers to aid |
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robbat2 getting ledger ported to gnucash and up-to-speed maybe? I can't |
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really volunteer as I'm not good with finance esp. not US and have one |
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too many pans in the fire right now...! :) |
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For zlg's benefit .. I wasn't advocating re-writing the social contract |
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(yet) just questioning whether that may be an unhelpful constraint in |
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quite an important process, but I sit corrected in that there are libre |
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solutions to this issue in use in similar environments .. so we just |
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need to transition .. |
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2c50 ! |
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