developed this product, especially the more recent versions. It is one of my
favorite open source projects. Here's why:
* I can actually use the debit/credit paradigm, rather than a simpleton checkbook approach,
which usually oversimplifies something so much that I can't do what I need to do.
* Someone created a General Ledger that I can see all my transactions and create new ones,
again, in a true accounting style, almost exactly like I had in my accounting courses. Before this, I had to enter general transactions in a specific account. Thank you someone.
* Someone created some level of calculator so I can do subtraction, at least, on the amount fields.
* Gnucash lets me reconcile whatever account I have, not just bank accounts. Please keep this feature! Not all accounting programs allow this, and certainly not the basic checkbook ones like Quicken. I have to reconcile at least 20-30 accounts payables for various healthcare providers that we use, this is a necessity.
* Someone, at one time at least, had the sheer brilliance of combining all the necessary
RPM files into one download. I could have jumped for joy when I didn't have to spend
hours wrestling with dependencies.
* The QFX import feature works really well. I'm amazed sometimes at how accurate it
can detect existing transactions. Aside from wishing I could select a matching account via
keyboard in addition to a mouse, it works really well. I had problems with QIF, though.
* I was easily able to change the layout of an account to show the ledger form, restrict dates
and get the information that I needed, without looking at the documentation.
* I'm able to use your product, without using the documentation, almost always.
* As shocking as it sounds, most of my needs can be met by running Windows. I don't manage production web servers or do anything rocket science related. I'd keep Linux around if for no other reason than to have Gnucash.
I'd also like to request these features:
* Could someone create a transaction number that's short enough to be written on
my receipts? I'd like Gnucash to autoincrement this for me, and tell me which number
to write down. That way, if I ever needed to say, return something, I can go to Gnucash,
lookup a transaction, and see that it was filed as transaction #4396, or something, and find that in a bin somewhere. In otherwords, help me track my supporting *paper* documentation.
* Create a key to goto a specific date within an account ledger, or to the beginning or end
of it.
* Add account information fields, such as contact information for say, banks, accounts
payables, receivables, etc.
* Speed of importing transactions, and startup is somewhat slow. At the risk of sounding heretical, maybe an XML repository isn't the best approach. I'd be willing to have a completely unreadable binary format that performed better. I don't have the time to directly modify or write XSL scripts to process the Gnucash format anyway.
Thanks for the good work, Ben Pracht _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
