Accountant's comments on GNUcash

[John M Collins]

Here is what my accountant says about GNUcash - would anyone like to
comment?


> After several days of pulling my hair out I have managed to get the 
> trial balance to balance.
> 
> The reporting in Gnu is very poor.  I have had to run a general
> ledger 
> report on screen, cut and paste this to Excel and then work on the
> data 
> from there.  On the general ledger report in many accounts the
> credits 
> are randomly reported in the debit column (see accounts for VAT
> outputs 
> or credit card) and so I have had to go through and pull them into
> the 
> right column.
> 
> However the main thing is that it still cannot cope with foreign 
> currency.  In particular when amounts are transferred from Ruesch to 
> HSBC current, the credit in Ruesch does not equal the debit in
> current 
> account (see MEI on 24/11/08 - it has debit 6,413.16 and credit 
> 6,823.24).  To identify this I have needed to go through the whole 
> ledger and literally match each debit to a credit.  It is just
> fortunate 
> that there are not that many foreign transactions - otherwise it
> would 
> be completely unmanageable.
> 
> Executive summary: you urgently need to ditch this software and get 
> something that works.


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