On 11/27/18 4:46 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:13:37 +0100 Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>
wrote:
Op dinsdag 27 november 2018 00:17:06 CET schreef John Ralls:
On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:35 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote:
The other big issue is that your description of the various modules in a
business accounting system is for *big* business. That’s not what GnuCash
is designed for and not what the current development team is interested in,
never mind (as you point out) capable of supporting. There are a several
open-source projects in that space, search the web for “foss erp†to find
them. GnuCash is focussed on very small businesses (as in sole
proprietorships) and individuals.
I mostly agree, yet I think many small businesses would benefit from a simple
inventory management system. My own business would have for that matter.
And while inventory is not strictly accounting it would make gnucash a viable
option to quite a few extra small businesses. So I'm in two minds with respect
to inventory support and have been for quite a while. In the past I envisioned
implementing it myself (reusing certain parts of the existing code and adding
the missing bits) but for various reasons shifted to other priorities. If
someone would step in to write it, I would still support the effort though.
"Inventory Management" is so close to managing stocks, that it should be
possible to implement with bit of recycling/repurposing the existing code for
stocks... One can *almost* fake it now by considering physical inventory as
if it were a stock and using a "stock" type account.
Hmm. I'll have to read up on stocks. My retirement accounts are
managed by a firm so I haven't felt the need to track the details.
Payroll on the other hand is not my cup of tea and likely more targeted at
larger businesses.
Yes, a full fledged Payroll module would likely to be major bit of coding, but
maybe a simplified small scale Payroll module *might* be of use to smaller
businesses (say < 5 employees).
The one I built was for a 700 employee hospital in S. California. They
had strange rules about on-call and overtime.
Something for a Mom and Pop would be interesting. Not this year!
More generally, we can certainly use more hands to carry gnucash forward. So
Stephen your offer to lend us a hand is highly appreciated :)
I'm curious as to how many developers contribute.
+1
Regards,
Geert
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