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Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by salawat »

VonGuard wrote: post #95
JaggerFoo wrote: post #78

I use GnuCash for business accounting and it does what I need. I don't use QuickBooks as VC's recommend in blog posts. QB has some convenient features, but that is not enough for me to pay the price QB is asking. I don't need VC money or a CPA. I haven't tried using GnuCash with Sqlite, but I would like to experiment when I get the time. Is it reliable? I used to be a technical/functional engineer for Oracle EBS, so…

It's great for personal or very small businesses but god help you if you are building a real startup with GNUCash. I am speaking from experience here, GNUCash zealotry is a plague. I honestly wish this project basically did not exist, because the business world despises GNUCash, ONLY cares about QuickBooks, and using anything else is a giant waste of everyone's time. Believe me, I have been fighting this fight in non…

>The world has chosen QuickBooks. This choice was made under duress and with corrupt power brokering.

And yet knowing this has gone on, you refuse to continue to fight the good fight even still? Sounds like you're part of the problem my man.

I'm so fucking tired of corporate apologists/appeasers.

Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by klysm »

kaba0 wrote: post #145
klysm wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XML is human readable, but barely. I do not trust any executable other than SQLite, postgres and a few others to correctly manage state on disk without corrupting it.

Arguably, XML’s schemas are better than SQLite’s constraints, especially in this domain.

Yeah I get that SQLite technically has weak schema constraints, but it's rarely a problem in practice. I'm far more concerned about messing up with the filesystem and losing data.

Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by _blk »

I've been using GnuCash for a few years now and it's been good. I was looking at other options, but every time I try to book Cryptocurrencies I turn around to GNUCash. Is there another option? Most recently I've tried Odoo (stems out of OpenERP (prev. TinyERP)) which I like because it's python based, has a web interface and runs on docker.

Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by seltzered_ »

euroderf wrote: post #163
GlibMonkeyDeath wrote: post #14

I looked carefully at GnuCash before settling on Beancount (or plain-text accounting in general) for personal finance software. The deal breaker for me was the underlying XML or SQLite formats of GnuCash. These are not terribly amenable to scripting, either for ingesting raw data or reporting. Whereas this is basically the point of plain-text tools like Beancount or HLedger. GnuCash feels too much like a walled-garde…

Beancount + Fava looks like a pretty slick combo. Can anyone describe experience with it ?

It's a decent experience for personal accounting if you follow the advice from the beancount cookbook/manual for organizing things. I wish there was a bit more integration between the experience of editing and reviewing accounts, and started https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage as an initial attempt.

Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by billfruit »

moe_sc wrote: post #130
billfruit wrote: post #115

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Frankly the easiest way seems to be apps that parse your sms messages in your phone and build up an expense report out of that. Many people here will balk at this, but it takes a lot of effort out of keeping expense reports.

I haven't gotten a single bill over SMS, is this an US thing?

They don't send a bill over sms, but a transaction acknowledgement indicating total amount over sms.

Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by fuzztester »

unmole wrote: post #169
fuzztester wrote: post #125

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India had / has a bunch of indie vendors of small financial accounting packages (that's what it is called here), some years back and for quite a while before that. When a new Indian software product company starts up, this is often the field they enter first, partly because the domain knowledge is widely available via chartered accountants and is fairly standardized, I think. Not an expert in the field myself. I don'…

> When a new Indian software product company starts up, this is often the field they enter first This doesn't ring true to me. It's almost impossible for a new accounting suite to find traction because Tally is the defacto standard. The only successful newcomer I can think of is Zoho.

Maybe I was thinking about the situation of some years ago.

I've heard Zoho is successful, though.

Re: GnuCash 5.9

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Post by keepamovin »

salawat wrote: post #171
VonGuard wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's great for personal or very small businesses but god help you if you are building a real startup with GNUCash. I am speaking from experience here, GNUCash zealotry is a plague. I honestly wish this project basically did not exist, because the business world despises GNUCash, ONLY cares about QuickBooks, and using anything else is a giant waste of everyone's time. Believe me, I have been fighting this fight in non…

>The world has chosen QuickBooks. This choice was made under duress and with corrupt power brokering. And yet knowing this has gone on, you refuse to continue to fight the good fight even still? Sounds like you're part of the problem my man. I'm so fucking tired of corporate apologists/appeasers.

We're aligned, you didn't get the sarcasm. :)
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