GC for Ecuador?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Steve J wrote:

>I'm at an eco-lodge in Ecuador where the owners use pen and paper bookkeeping except for mayroll, which they do with Quickbooks. The lodge has a dozen employees and the owner says that the tax situation in Ecuador makes using Quickbooks for bookkeeping inpractical. I've been using GC for personal finace for several years but does anyone have any idea as to whether it would be reasonable for me to encourage them to try it out here. The current system looks awward, not awfully useful and primitive.
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>Lodging plus extras- tours, horseback riding, etc. Spanish language, of course.
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To replace the traditional pen and ink on paper bookkeeping GnuCash 
would do just fine. It's a great "autoposting"  ledger system. About all 
they would need to learn is what they DON'T have to do any longer (thus 
the system can generate a "balance sheet" for any desired date or an 
"income-expense statement" for any specified time interval with no work 
other than specifying the options (no need to transcribe account balances).

The biggest advantage over pen and ink on paper is no transcription 
errors! Books are always in balance.

Michael D Novack, FLMI