On 05/12/16 03:06, james wrote:
> On 12/04/2016 06:49 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:07:59PM +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote:
>>> I gather both Quickbooks and Sage have a more modular approach to
>>> "proper" accounting software applicable to small and large
>>> businesses. I
>>> know my mother used Quickbooks in the past with good success and the
>>> support of her accountant, but Sage is known to be equally
>>> accessible. I
>>> would imagine there is an appropriate version for not-for-profit or
>>> charities, perhaps you can seek advice with the person(s) already
>>> contacted for accounting/finance purposes?!
>> Our CPA (Yes, we do have one) only recommends QuickBooks, but has used a
>> variety of other proprietary systems (none of which he recommends at
>> all!).
>>
>> The catch is that either Quickbooks or Sage would be a violation of the
>> social contract's libre-licence dependence clause.
>>
>> Ledger HAS filled most of our needs thus far, but lacks in reporting and
>> some automation:
>> - I'd love to automatically generate lots of depreciation
>>   entries, but can't yet.
>> - Something to anonymize private information in some entries, so that
>>   the actual Ledgers can be published for transparency.
>>
>
> All of that is routine and easy with GNUcash....
>
>
> hth,
> James
>
>
>
Grabbing the bull by the horns here, any willing/able volunteers to aid
robbat2 getting ledger ported to gnucash and up-to-speed maybe? I can't
really volunteer as I'm not good with finance esp. not US and have one
too many pans in the fire right now...! :)

For zlg's benefit .. I wasn't advocating re-writing the social contract
(yet) just questioning whether that may be an unhelpful constraint in
quite an important process, but I sit corrected in that there are libre
solutions to this issue in use in similar environments .. so we just
need to transition ..

2c50 !