GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

[Colin Law]

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Colin

On 18 January 2016 at 09:38, Draug <draug at kolabnow.com> wrote:
> I've written a mail to the Swedish Account Standards Board, and now awaiting
> answer on how the legislation should be interpreted.
>
> Regarding your second question I'm aware that all transactions in all
> software and whatever can be edited if you have the knowledge, that's why I
> find the legislation even more confusing and unclear.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Draug
>
>
> On 01/18/2016 10:28 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 18 January 2016 at 08:18, Draug <draug at kolabnow.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For quite a while I've used GnuCash for the accounting of my company, but
>>> recently I've come to question if it's legal to use GnuCash for that
>>> purpose. According to Swedish accounting legislation, you are not allowed
>>> to
>>> use accounting software that allows you to edit registered transactions
>>> (where they use Excel as an example), which to my knowledge is quite easy
>>> to
>>> do in GnuCash, even after reconcilation. Swedish accounting legislation
>>> requires that every mistake is corrected with another transaction, and
>>> that
>>> the mistake is left intact in the records.
>>
>> Are you sure that the legislation requires that the s/w does not allow
>> it, and not just that you have documented procedures that do not allow
>> it?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> Is there anything that I've missed that makes it possible to use GnuCash
>>> in
>>> accordance with Swedish law? I really want to avoid switching to some
>>> proprietary, cloud-based accounting software that costs $12 a month to
>>> use.
>>
>> As a matter of interest which s/w were you thinking of that does not
>> allow modification under any circumstances, including, for example
>> restoring a backup and re-entering the transaction that way, or
>> hacking the database itself.
>>
>> Colin
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