Financial year handling

[Nicholas Lee]

On 10/25/05, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> I guess it depends on your requirements.  When I looked at SQL-Ledger
> (before I wrote the gnucash business features) I was quite
disapointed

SQL-Ledger has improved a lot since then, and with respect to your
work unfortunately the business component of Gnucash hasn't .
Furthermore its not really a generalised business application, at
least in my business environment it wasn't usable.

> with it.  Besides, I didn't want to have to set up a web server and
> secure it in order to run my business finances, and BOY could I not
> ask someone like my /mom/ to do that!!!

As opposed to Gnucash? ;)

Seriously, I expect any tech-guy who might look at gnucash for a
business system would now be better served using SQL-Ledger.  I would
further suggest that any Mum-type person without access to a tech-head
would be better served getting something like MYOB.

Its not that hard to setup SQL-Ledger, but regardless of how much
easier it might be to install Gnucash. Gnucash is much harder to use.

In my experience for the last several years as both a management
accountant and a tech-guy, personal finance system and business
finance system don't really match. I think its important for projects
like gnucash and kmymoney to focus on their core feature sets and
goals.

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Nicholas Lee
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