On 12/04/2016 10:10 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote:
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...! :)
Well, the key skill that is needed is someone who has the vision of what
the 'chart of accounts' needs to look like for a 501(c) gentoo
organization. The gnucash-user list is full of helpful folks that will
help with migration, including numerous scripts that automate conversion
from other accounting systems to gnucash. Really the next step would be
for Robatt2 figure out and list what he wants. I'm already subscribe to
gnucash-user, so if a few other folks did likewise it would get the ball
rolling. One could even state the type of 501(c) and ask for a suggested
list of chart of accounts for that type of business organization, on the
gnucash-user list. I have already sent robatt2 a coulple of contacts
that currently run 501(c) organizations on gnucash.
Define what you have and what you want to do, then ask for help on
gnucash-user list for ideas and guidance. I do not believe that any
custom programming is needed, but I''m not familiar with the needs of
501(c) in general, nor any of the gentoo specific needs.
hth,
James
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 !
I would never use FOSS accounting software because it is FOSS. I use
gnucash, after working with accountants on dozens of PC based packages
and it is simple the best, flexible, free support and many have custom
scripts that that share, freely, that makes gnucash my goto package for
accounting. gnucash does no 'lock in your data' and that is a big deal
for most organizations. Gnucash makes it easy to do what you want, with
a robust, double entry system that has countless cool features.
ymmv,
James
