Financial year handling

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Nicholas Lee <emptysands at gmail.com>:

> 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.

Did you give any feedback about how it wasn't usable in your environment?
Did you file any bug reports about the issue(s)?

>> 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? ;)

Why, yes, actually.  "yum install gnucash" gets it installed (presuming you
didn't already install it when you installed the OS) and then it's
on the desktop.  Then they just need to run it.  Et voila, they're
using GnuCash.

> 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.

Can you be more explicit?  Without user feedback there's no way
to improve the program.

> 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.

I'm sorry you feel that way.  I know lots of other people who feel
differently, including the many happy users of gnucash (both as a
personal finance program and a business finance program).

-derek

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