What's your favorite year end method?

[Ron Morse]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:28 -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> This is why I'm working on the Python program I
> mentioned in an email to this thread last night. I'm already getting
> income statement, balance sheet, net worth, and unrealized gains (with
> dividends) reports from it, sorted and presented the way I want them.
> Where they should, items it reports agree with gnucash to the penny.
> And it generates these reports in less than 30 seconds on a TP T60 (2
> Ghz Core 2 Duo). This was an act of desperation on my part, because I
> couldn't get gnucash to answer many key questions I had about my own
> finances, and a look at the reporting code led me to conclude that
> making an investment in improving what's there was not likely to be
> feasible or effective, given my time constraints and my worries about
> the performance of guile/scheme (and I'm an experienced Scheme
> programmer -- Jerry Sussman and Chris Hanson are old friends and I
> used MIT Scheme as the basis for Butterfly Lisp when I ran that
> project at BBN 20 years ago; I don't know Guy Steele as well as Jerry
> and Chris, but did work with him at Thinking Machines in the early
> 90s). So it was either this, or abandon gnucash, which I would have
> hated to do.
> 
> /Don
Necessity is a mother. It often gives birth to invention. 

Ron Morse