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...@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Lokesh Yagnik Sent: 07 March 2022 07:57 To: gnucash-user@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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
