On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 07:46:26PM -0700, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Mar 10, 2025, at 16:03, Todd Gould <gnuc...@abilsoft.com> wrote: > > > > I have noticed various older historic discussions regarding the lack of the > > ability to perform Cash Basis reporting - especially for small business > > purposes. > > > > Is this feature on the development radar anywhere? How can we get it > > prioritized more highly please? > > > > In the meantime, as it seems to have not progressed for many years so far, > > are there any well-known/documented workarounds for this in the meantime? > > The lack of this is a key blocker for US based businesses that may be > > considering using this come tax filing and payroll accounting time. > > GnuCash is Free software developed by volunteers who work on things they > want to work on. As far as I know none of the (very small) core group has > any interest in rewriting the business code to make cash-basis accounting > easier. > > To get it prioritized, develop it yourself or find someone to develop it > for you. You or they may submit it back to the GnuCash project via a Github > PR if you’re so inclined. If not but you want to make it available for > others be mindful of the terms of the GNU General Public License version > 2 or later. > > With all of that out of the way, it’s not terribly hard to use the GnuCash > business module for cash-basis accounting: Just don’t post your bills and > invoices until you pay or are paid. > Exactly! I've been using GnuCash for Cash Basis accounting for several years now and haven't really noticed any problems related to using it that way. I basically drive it from the bank statements, what it then provides is a any easy way to analyse things into various accounts so one can see where money comes from and goes to.
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