Stock

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 2/14/2015 12:57 AM, Jill Terry wrote:
> Thanks folks.  Seeing "Stock" in the menu I though perhaps it could. 
> That's a shame, I was really hoping to move my business over to GnuCash.
>
> Jill 
Words that have more than one meaning can always cause this kind of 
confusion. The "stock" in this case meaning "equities" (shares of a 
corporation) as opposed to "inventory".

A complete business system can involve MUCH more than just the 
accounting package. Depending on the sort of business might be packages 
that do "inventory", "point of sales", "billable hours" (both externally 
as charged to clients and internally tracking the work of associates), 
etc. The complete business system, often sold customized to the sort of 
business would have something to integrate these different kins of 
record keeping with the accounting part. In large business systems these 
would be by "feeds" (in a large business system, those using it only can 
access the portions within their authorization*).

AFAIK there aren't any open source projects either trying to construct 
such integrated systems, possibly by combining the work of separate 
teams doing this or that part. This would be a difficult project for 
open source as in the other "world" development usually driven by 
potential customer (enough that would buy this set of packages to pay 
for the development -- if the needs of your sort of business needs 
something else, too bad)



Michael D Novack, FLMI

* For example, the clerk at the checkout line is entering data into a 
"point of sales" system but you would NOT want that clerk to be doing 
the same to the financial books!