It's a big room but it's a noisy one too, there are already a lot of good apps out there for accounting, with some money and experience behind them too.
I'm all for new ideas but it would need to be pretty innovative or approached to suit a niche personality/market with the user experience to get a bite of the market share I would assume. Oh yea and the marketing budget to tell the world why you different from the rest of course ;) On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Graham Salmon <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for that. Firstly it's a big room ! Secondly, although some apps > declare their 'simplicity', they're not that simple to use.Thirdly, double > entry bookkeeping is essentially a manual operation. Sage for example was > developed to replicate double entry manual systems to make bookkeepers feel > comfortable. There's no real reason why that should continue. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Paul Wilson <[email protected]> > > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wed, 23 June, 2010 10:54:39 > > *Subject:* Re: [NWRUG] Re: Ruby on Rails- Financial applications > > Surely, there's an elephant in the room here: FreeAgent Central, the > accounting/book-keeping product (written in Rails). > > http://www.freeagentcentral.com/ > > (or with my referrer id) > > http://www.freeagentcentral.com/?referrer=2y02htpp > > > On the other side of the Atlantic there's > > https://www.iacez.com/home > and > http://lessaccounting.com/ > > > > > > On 23 Jun 2010, at 10:39, Peter Morris wrote: > > > Hmmmmm, no need for double entry.... > > > > I was once told that double entry book keeping was one of the main > invented machines of the human race. > > > > Along with the wheel, lever, fire etc. > > > > I think it would be very difficult to gain acceptance for any accounting > system that did not at least approximate the functionality of double entry > book keeping. > > > > > > On 23 Jun 2010, at 09:52, Graham Salmon wrote: > > > >> Thanks. I'll take a look at that. I was trying to avoid using > traditional accountancy coding systems,eg Sage, because they are based on > the centuries-old manual double entry system. Frankly there is no need for a > 'double entry' aspect in current systems. > >> > >> From: Francis Fish <[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> Sent: Wed, 23 June, 2010 8:22:33 > >> Subject: Re: [NWRUG] Re: Ruby on Rails- Financial applications > >> > >> "It's just software" - acts_as_taggable plugin? > http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids > >> > >> Unless you're talking about accountancy-style coding systems - that's > more a function of the package than Rails, surely? > >> > >> Thanks and regards, > >> > >> Francis > >> > >> Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/fjfish > >> Blog at http://www.francisfish.com > >> (you can also buy my books from there!) > >> CV http://www.pharmarketeer.com/francis.html > >> > >> Comfort the frightened, coach the clueless and teach the uninformed. > Seth Godin > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Graham Salmon < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Benjamin > >> Is it a bookkeeping based app? I'm concerned that Rails may be too > inflexible to accommodate sufficient tagging for customised reports. > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On 22 Jun 2010, at 01:52, Ebotech <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > On Jun 21, 9:34 am, Graham Salmon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> B2B accounting > >> > > >> > I am in the middle of writing a rails based accounting app if that > >> > helps... > >> > > >> > > >> > Benjamin > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NWRUG" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+ > [email protected]. > >> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NWRUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+ > [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NWRUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+ > [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NWRUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+ > [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+ > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+ > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nwrug-members%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > -- Rob Hayward Freelance Web Developer http://www.robhayward.co.uk 07595 453 949 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. 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