Gnucash or Accounting Questions on this list

[Wm]

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:42:35 <13199007.9EWGAvFU0Q at legolas.kobaltwit.lan> 
Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>

>On Tuesday 24 February 2015 17:03:57 Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>> > Acquiring the 'how to books' is still a good idea particularly if
>> > the
>> > text references this specific software.
>>
>> Maybe, but I can't picture what you might have in mind. Could you give
>> us an example of an ACCOUNTING question where the answer would be
>> different for gnucash as opposed to QuickBooks Pro or PeachTree or
>> whatever? (or the old fashioned pen and ink on paper for that matter;
>> or the slightly newer "spreadsheets with columns set as would be
>> lines ruled  on old fashioned accounting paper*").
>>
>> I would think that to the extent that the text might be gnucash
>> specific, that bit isn't an accounting question.
>>
>
>In my experience we don't get that many "pure" accounting questions on 
>the user list. some
>may start out like one but most if not all of them end with a variation 
>of "and how do I model
>this in gnucash" at which point it stops being a pure accounting question.

>This is the "gnucash" user list after all. So every question is 
>interpreted with gnucash use in
>mind.

Personally I enjoy the variety of people from different countries and 
official accounting views each trying to do more or less the same thing: 
account for themselves, their family, their business, their co-op, their 
nonprofit ... something they're involved in and take an interest in ... 
using GnuCash.

I think of GnuCash as personal accounting software because you get 
involved with it as a person rather than because of some limitation to 
personal finance.

For me it is a strange love affair that extends to the people that use 
it and their sometimes baffling questions which sometimes need to be 
unpicked before an answer can be given.

If I looked at each post and thought "is that an accounting question" 
I'd probably not have bothered beyond a month.

Long may the variety last!

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Wm...