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

Erik Mathis erik at mathists.com
Wed Aug 1 09:54:34 EDT 2012


Actually that wisdom can be applied to anything. It really irks me
when someone just assumes everyone should understand something or do
something a cretin way just because they do. I even have the tendency
to do that which I have to remind my self of this great quote I herd a
long ago. "You're arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance"

-Erik-

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> Back in college it never occurred to me that some folks find accounting
> difficult.   It wasn’t until a class mate and I were discussing an
> accounting homework assignment and I said, not for the first time, “it’s
> easy all you need to do is…”.   She stopped me and said “Jeff maybe for YOU
> it’s  easy but for us mere mortals it actually takes some thought.”  I later
> found out many business majors have to take accounting 101 more than once
> before they pass it.   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.
>
>
>
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> Trausch
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:28 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] GnuCash (Was: Re: [OT] Home PBX?)
>
>
>
> I may need to look at it again. The last time I did, though, it was too
> complex for the non accountant.
>
> What I have been working on is an interface for just the stuff we need, in
> such a way that almost anyone can go in and do the things that they are
> supposed to be able to do without having to know a ton about accounting.
> Things like create an invoice, enter a manual payment, enter a vendor
> invoice or payment, or process payroll.
>
> The last part is mostly automatic, since we are currently using a local
> third party payroll company, but it would be nice to someday be able to not
> rely on an external entity for payroll purposes.
>
> 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. :-)
>
> On Jul 31, 2012 10:21 PM, "Doug Hall" <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You might take a look at <http://sql-ledger.com/>. It's been a while
> since I've examined it, but it might very well fit your needs.
>
> Doug Hall
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:49 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> That said, I really need to replace it with something a little less...
>> single-user-ish.  I am using it only as a start for my business, until I
>> have had the time to actually implement a system that is concurrently
>> multiuser and Web-based.  Love it for things where I'm the only person
>> ever likely to work on it at the same time.  Hate the fact that it
>> doesn't do concurrent multiuser access, though, even on SQL databases...
>> see http://is.gd/2GZ56H (GnuCash wiki) for why that is (at least for
>> now...)
>
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