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| John Hasler 2004-08-08, 7:59 am |
| William Ballard writes:
> GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much.
I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There
is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting system
suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks clone. There
isn't much there yet, but I hope to soon put up a tentative rationale and
maybe some code from a toy system I wrote years ago. Please join and help.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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| William Ballard 2004-08-08, 7:59 am |
| On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:59:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> William Ballard writes:
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> I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There
> is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting system
> suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks clone. There
> isn't much there yet, but I hope to soon put up a tentative rationale and
> maybe some code from a toy system I wrote years ago. Please join and help.
For my personal finances I use the tool I wrote
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pim-tb to display and enter data
according to some schema, and then use xsltproc and PERL to do
interesting things with the resulting XML.
I didn't like how the U/Is of in particular GNUCash felt; and I felt
stifled by their schemas: my tool works with any relational schema and
lets me bop around and look at and manipulate small sets of data.
It starts very fast, so I can whap it open and slap in some stuff, and
get out.
For instance I can download statements from the bank and use PERL and
xsltproc to massage them into a schema the tool can display.
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| William Ballard 2004-08-08, 7:59 am |
| On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:14:10PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [John Hasler]
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> Thank you, as one of the sql-ledger maintainers. 
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> It would be interesting if there were a scanner and OCR system
> connected to it, for document storage (think invoices) and retrieval.
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> One would scan all incoming mail, detect invoices and run OCR on them
> to locate vendor and amount, and make the transaction available for
> the accountant for assigning of the right account and approval of the
> right people. If it in addition could connect semi-automatically to
> the electronic bank to schedule the payment, it would save me a lot of
> work.
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> SQL-Ledger is not quite there yet.
I'm doing this. I have some bash scripts which call xsane and I just
scan in stacks of bills, statements, receipts as files 0000.png,
0001.png, &c. I've written but not yet released a GTK app which allows
me to quickly rename and move the files to a form such as:
/x/p/d4/PGE/40810/01.png
/x/p/d4/Bank/Slips/Cash/40801-McDonalds.png
&c.
As I previously mentioned, I use my released tool
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pim-tb
to display downloaded bank statements. A feature I plan to add is the
ability to link a filename to the transaction, but that's a lot of
unecessary work, since using my directory schema I can pretty quickly
find a document.
I think people tend to over-construct such systems; you end more being a
user of the system than a manager of your own data. I get a lot more
done with my little hackish things and bits of PERL glue.
In particular I hate organizing my schemas according to someone else's
tastes. My schemas suit me perfectly; but you'd hate them!
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| Allan Wind 2004-08-08, 5:51 pm |
| On 2004-08-08T07:59:50-0500, John Hasler wrote:
> There > is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting
> system suitable for small business.
How is GNU Enterprise (http://www.gnuenterprise.org/) doing these days?
/Allan
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