[Bulk] Re: new user of Gnucash - questions

[David T.]

--- On Fri, 3/25/11, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:


> We're veering off into "not-Gnucash" land here, folks..
> Gnucash very simply is not the appropriate program for a
> company that has outside auditors. There are no
> administrative controls, all users are equal and can change
> history at will, the CoA is 
> highly mutable (a feature for our SOHO target user-base, a
> major failure for everyone else), there are no audit
> functions, 
> the logging is minimal and not traceable to a particular
> user.  
> 
> Gnucash is for personal and (very) small businesses where
> there are only a couple of people with their fingers in the
> books, and where there are external means of making sure
> that nothing funny is going on (like the owner is the only
> one who can sign checks and has time to know what each one
> of them is for and to whom it's being paid). If that doesn't
> describe your operation, then you need a different program,
> and you're probably going to have to pay for it.
> 

John--

I appreciate your points here. However, I don't think addressing this issue is particularly far afield from Gnucash issues, any more than the (like clockwork) discussions about data safety and why Gnucash offers neither a password feature nor a backup option.

David

> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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