Cash Book

[Chris Bester]

Hi Michael

I am retired and have not touched any accounting programme for a long time.
As from January 2013 I have been called in to help out at a Non-Profit
Organisation.   I had obtained a new computer in the meantime with Windows
7.  My previous accounting programs could not run on Windows 7. And to
upgrade would have cost a lot of money, hence, I stumbled on gnucash.  The
dominant accounting program in my country is Pastel.  I have also, over time
used Quick  Books and Brilliant etc.  All these programs automatically end
off books at the end of the prescribed financial year and start the new year
with new balances which are the ending balances of the previous year.  I
presume this is what David C is referring to.  No miraculous software as you
mentioned just getting yourself updated on other programs.  By continuous I
simply mean that in gnucash balances continue running for ever starting with
the original opening balance.  At the moment I have to recreate most of my
required financial statement on Excel.   The first thing Auditors do, when
you present your books, is to check your ending balances of the previous
year, see whether those are your opening balances for the new year and then
they continue reviewing your books.
May be David C is correct in saying I should look for different software/
programs and spend the money and go back to Patel.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+chrisbester=cybersmart.co.za at gnucash.org] On
Behalf Of Mike or Penny Novack
Sent: 18 December 2014 12:34 AM
To: David Carlson
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Cash Book


>
>Jumping in kind of late but I can imagine that some auditors might want 
>proof that the file was not changed outside of a prescribed "audit 
>trail", which is impossible to prove one way or the other with GnuCash.
>If that is the case, the user must get different software.
>
>David C
>_______________________________________________
>  
>
And what would this miraculous software be? Or would these auditors mean
just  "data couldn't have been hacked by the unskilled lacking tools".

The job of getting around whatever is supposedly providing the "unaltered"
security is EASIER when it's open software like gnucash. In other words, if
gnucash did provide this sort of security lock any professional  programmer
should be able to get around it. With proprietary software, source code not
available, would require a lot more skill and experience and use of some
specialized tools. But still doable << I used to get paid to do things like
making changes to a program where the source code had been lost >>.

In other words, the developers of gnucash aren't including this sort of
(false) security probably because they know that any of them would be able
to get around it.

Michael
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