On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:10:47PM -0500, Ean Schuessler wrote: > Agreed. In the past I had mentioned Apache's Open for Business project. > It does fairly sophisticated accounting as well as multi-facility > inventory management, customer relationship management, tracking project > hours and manufacturing line control. For actual small to medium size > businesses, the ledger is just a part of the problem.
The needs of a NPO are quite different than those of a for-profit business such as OfB might help, especially a fiscal sponsor like either SPI or Conservancy. The key difference is a large number of temporarily restricted accounts (for Conservancy) or earmarks whose purposes we need to respect (for SPI). The financial statements are also different. Further, most of what you listed amongst OfB's features are irrelevant to fiscal sponsors like SPI, while of course they're useful for other businesses. Quickbooks and Microsoft's equivalents, by the way, don't handle this well either, though NPOs usually muddle through as best they can. Conservancy is not reinventing the wheel - they're modifying existing wheels to handle our weather. - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@spi-inc.org _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
