On Monday 24 Oct 2005 11:33 am, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > >From a purely techno-managerial point of view, using an online > > accounting > > package running on a remote server is a major PIA. > > If the CA the only one working with the accounting package, it makes > more sense running the app on a machine at his place of work. If only > a few and select number of people need to work on it, they can > connect via VPN to his machine and work with it there.
depends on how the accounts are maintained. It is rare that the CA will actually do the accounts entry. Usually, the CA installs an accounting package at the client's end and the client does the entry with the CA auditing it and signing off on the final accounts. or the client does the entry in raw form of a spreadsheet which is printed out and given to the CA who may or may not enter it into the computer to finalise it. Tally does not export data to any format, the only way tally data can be used is to print out all the vouchers and then manually enter them in another accounting system - unworkable. The way i suggest is that the accounts are entered locally on a local machine using avsap by whoever maintains the accounts - the postgreql database can be synced with the public database on the web which would give a read-only view to anyone interested. The CA can audit remotely by logging in to the local machine. Given the volume of entries, about one hour a month is ample for making the entries. The CA will barf initially, but he has no right to dictate what software the client uses as long as it follows the norms of double-entry bookkeeping. And when he finds that he can use odbc to import the data into his spreadsheet, he will be thrilled. -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
