Best way to manage utilities

Alberto Dante alberto.dante at gmail.com
Mon May 5 12:15:17 EDT 2014


Hi Michael,
in truth, It has never been a my preoccupation if my demands are framed 
in a context of rigorous accounting system.
Unfortunately, I'm not a professional accounter, and my goal is to find 
a software which fits my needs, nothing else.
When I started my search, I couldn't image it so hard.
I think I'll have to modify my goal...
Thanks to you and all other users for your help.
Best regards
Alberrto
>      We might of course be having some language difficulties. I was NOT
> suggesting that you use an inventory system. I was just trying to point
> out that there were a lot of things we might be wanting to keep track of
> besides MONEY. What an accounting system does, what it is supposed to
> do, is keep track of money, not other things. You are expecting gnucash
> to perhaps do things OTHER than what an accounting system is designed to
> do. I chose "inventory" as an example because an inventory system (in a
> business environment) would have a TIE to the accounting system, whether
> an automated tie or not depending on how well the two systems,
> "inventory" and "accounting" were connected.
>
>      So yes of course, just as in the case of a proposed inventory system
> that would tie to gnucash, there could be one that would do what you
> want, one that would do "project" accounting or "time" accounting (for
> those businesses that so "billable hours") or "commissions" (for those
> businesses whose sales people work on commission), etc. But ALL of these
> would be in effect separate projects needing their own development
> teams. WHY? Because in all likelihood, even if particularly friendly to
> gnucash (primarily intended to work with gnucash) it would be foolish if
> these systems did not make provision to connect to other popular
> accounting systems.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
> PS: That you might have seen these with other (commercial) accounting
> software may have confused you to the extent you saw them as "part of"
> it. Many vendors of commercial accounting packages may offer for
> purchase add ons like a "point of sales" package that connects to their
> "inventory" package" and both their "accounting "package" (and maybe
> "tax preparation" packages for some of the more popular jurisdictions).
> Being commercial vendors, they have no interest in making these optional
> packages tie in to the accounting systems of competitors. That still
> does not make these add ons PART of the accounting system.
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