Adding a Payroll calculator

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Oct 30 08:33:22 EST 2005


Quoting "John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net>:

> I am curious about something:
> A payroll feature is only for businesses (except domestic help).
> Gnucash does not support the closing entries of a business, including owner's
> equity, whether a corp, sole proprietership or partnership.
> Wouldn't more users be served by creating support for closing accounting
> periods, equity, etc. vs. adding payroll.  After all, all businesses have to
> close accounting periods and have equity, only some businesses have
> employees.  I created a multi-page spreadsheet for our 5-15 employees which
> calcs deposits, etc. real time.  Since we have been using it, since 1993, we
> haven't had an error, late deposit, etc., but Intuit did buy the rights to my
> general ledger program, In House Accountant, and bury it (letter on file).

Book closing already exists in CVS.  It's not been well tested, and I
have not seen the GUI so I don't know how it looks.. But it's there.

-derek

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