Sales Tax with GnuCash
Mike or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
Fri Jan 1 11:32:49 EST 2010
Pablo Francesca wrote:
>Its my understanding that Gnucash is primarily a personal accounting software, albeit one capable of handling most business accounting needs.
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I would put it a different way.
The GnuCash software is good general purpose bookkeeping software. But
there is an assumption made that people using it for "personal"
bookkeeping have less experience/background in the fundamentals of
accounting than those using it for "business" purposes. Thus the built
in examples are more focused on "personal" use. If you want to use it
for business you should (already) understand accounting fundamentals or
be willing to learn them or have somebody else do the setting up of your
books (suitable for your sort of enterprise).
Having software does NOT mean you don't need an accountant (if you don't
know enough to be your own accountant). It makes sense to provide as
much guidance as possible for the "personal" users as not common to have
an accountant for personal accounting, to have that come WITH the "free
software". Everybody should note that providing free software does not
entail an obligation to provide free instructions how to best take
advantage of that software for various purposes (a "user guide" and a
"manual" are two very different things).
Michael D Novack
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