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Colin Scott gnucash at double-bars.net
Thu Aug 19 18:48:00 EDT 2010


> I'm trying not to do that, Colin.

I don't disbelieve you, but that's the way you have been coming over.
I've been biting my tongue since you first chipped in on this..

> And I really am an experienced analyst.

Which is, of course, not an excuse, rather the opposite - a good analyist
doesn't antagonise his subjects by trying to appear cleverer than they
are - especially after they've already dropped broad hints that he isn't!

See, I know I can be a bit of a prickly customer, but I reckon most of
the time I'm prickly with good cause.  As it happens, I too am an
experienced analyst - and also a very experienced designer and programmer
of accounting and business systems.  And that's not to mention an
experienced user of such systems, having run the accounts for four
separate companies (and a Rotary Club) with their aid over the years.  So,
as I said, I *do* know what I'm talking about!

All of which explains why I am sure of my ground, and perhaps a tad more
sensitive to being patronised than others might be.  It is probably (and
perhaps regrettably) also the reason I am somewhat intolerant of, and
abrasive about, bad design and implementation.  And whilst I agree that
one may, by careful use, be able to mitigate the effects of bad design
and implementation, you can _only_ mitigate, you can't actually resolve
the inherent problems.  So rather than lecturing the punters, perhaps you
should direct your energies elsewhere ... :-)

> Perhaps if you went back to the beginning with me and started 
> with your business requirements ...

There you go again ... !  It has already been explained, and you have
accepted, that one needs to update report definitions, even if only to
keep track of changes to the chart of accounts, and that the current
gnucash approach to this is, shall we say, sub-optimal.  The rest of it
is irrelevant bovine scatology!

Colin


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