KMyMoney vs Gnucash

[Ronal B Morse]

Yea! Sanity reigns!

RBM


On 08/15/2014 07:46 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>
>>
>> Finally, afaict, KMyMoney is not suitable for (smaller) businesses and
>> if GC
>> could, somehow, provide feature to have quotes (besides invoices), it
>> would
>> extend its usage quite far.
>>
>>
>>
> But this is precisely the sort of request that indicates confusion
> (about what an ACCOUNTING application is).
>
> Please, I am NOT meaning to imply that being to produce quotes wouldn't
> be a very desirable component of say a "business system for the
> contractor", a more complete system that might USE gnucash for its
> accounting component. Just like a "business system for the small retail
> business" should include a "pint of sales" system feeding an inventory
> system application and feeding say gnucash handing the accounting. ETC.
>
> But none of these things SHOULD be part of the accounting package itself
> (gnucash). The reason all of these things should be separate parts is
> that which parts needed/useful for the business depends upon what sort
> of business. Some other examples of pieces would be "billable hours"
> accounting for professional businesses that do that or "commissions
> systems" for businesses paying sales persons that way, etc.
>
> Understand? Coordinating all these parts (and recruiting teams to
> produce parts) would be the proper task of a "business systems" open
> source project. Might start out able to support only some sorts of
> businesses and would be the place to submit requests "add the bit I need
> for my sort of business) and this project might well USE gnucash for its
> accounting piece. Business systems involve far more than accounting and
> backwards to think of them as belonging INSIDE the accounting part.
>
> Michael D Novack
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