[GNC] Gnucash 3.8 Questions

[Alan A Holmes]

Hi Lokesh,

Unless you 150% trust your accountant to be honest I'd be reluctant to give
remote access. Many accountants are totally honest, but there are a few,
both self employed and employees of large accountancy companies, that
aren't. You only have to look at how many people are laundering the proceeds
of crime with the help of their accountants!

You could present your accountant with a copy of your GnuCash file and the
software required to look at it, or get your accountant to install the
software and just present them with a copy of your GnuCash file.

I suspect many accountants would be happy to have reports presented to them,
which can be done electronically, that give all the required information. Or
an export from your GnuCash file with the required information, in a format
that can be imported into another tool.

If they're trying to insist you use Xero, or any other specific software for
that matter, I think I'd look for another accountant. They're meant to be
serving you, not the other way around!
And for every one of their customers they manage to transfer to using a
specific software tool they probably get a bung/bonus from that company,
remember what I said about being honest above!


Alan A Holmes

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
<gnucash-user-bounces+gnucash=alanaholmes.me.uk at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of
Lokesh Yagnik
Sent: 07 March 2022 07:57
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Gnucash 3.8 Questions

Dear all,

I am not an accountant but with the help of the various threads I have
managed to maintain the accounts for myself, my wife and a small business -
three separately.

My Accountant is quite used to using Xero and prefers I change to it. Xero
makes his work flow easier. I understand that.

I have advised that Gnucash is quite capable of handling most things I
require and generating various reports. Accountant is willing to give this a
go after I generated some reports for him and sent screenshots.

Questions
- Can this version (or any version) of Gnucash allow remote access? Or (from
what I think is the case) will just have to allow him to remote log in to my
computer and then look at Gnucash

- Since I was learning, I have resisted the temptation to update to a newer
version of Gnucash. To upgrade, my understanding is that I need to upgrade
each version to the most uptodate stable version.
 As for backing up the current stuff, I will need to back up the various
XYXYXY.gnucash files or does the entire string -
Folder1/folder2/folder3/XYXYXY.gnucash has to be replicated?

thanks in advance

LY
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