Accounting Program

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 06-03-2010 om 10:19 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Martin
Owens:
> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:18 -0800, Brett wrote:
> > >There's a plan for that.
> > >Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also >set up the hat and drummed
> > >up other people's interest?
> > 
> > Am moving back to my hometown in a few weeks, and was thinking of
> > getting in touch with the local university, see if we could get some
> > of the comp sci kids interested.
> > I am an accountant, so while the FOSS stuff already out may be fine
> > for point-of-sale or home use, it does not really cut it when
> > compared to Quickbooks, MYOB, etc. 
> > Anyone else into this idea (accounting software for linux), let me
> > know!
> 
> For me this is going to be a personal project, I plan to go to Vermont
> for a few weeks to spent time with my inlaws. Quickbooks is being used
> to manage a small org and is the only package that's requiring
> VirtualBox at the moment and I want to replace it.
> 
> But I've seen QuickBooks, it looks really badly designed (from a UI
> perspective) so I'm intending on making something better than
> QuickBooks. Much better.
> 
> Can I put you down as an accountant to call on for advice? Maybe there
> is something you already know you dislike in existing packages, missing
> features or just bad positioning. 

The problem with most open source accounting apps is that they don't
support local (country-specific) requirements, or they need extensive
tweaking that requires help from local accountants and a bunch of
programmers to get and keep it right (laws change every day, but there
is also the integration with banks, etc.).

IOW: every serious accounting application will need a dedicated company
behind it...  (or multiple companies if you want to go international).


-- 
Jan Claeys