On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Dave Rolsky wrote at 13:50 (EDT) on Monday: > >> Isn't accounting better handled by accounting software. My animal >> rights organization uses Gnucash for our accounting, which works >> well. This does mean that donations ultimately get recorded in two >> places, but in different ways, since we don't track individual >> donations in Gnucash, just Rapport (the original). > > Yeah, this duplication of work is the exact problem we're trying to > avoid. I agree that the software packages should be separate, but we > need strong integration.
I'm not sure what this integration would look like. When we enter donations in Gnucash, we enter them as a lump sum ($1,000) as a tranfer from Income:donations to Bank:checking. In Rapport, we store each donation separately, so that $1,000 is broken down into many donations. I definitely don't want to track each donation separately in Gnucash. That really doesn't help with anything, and makes our accounts much more confusing. What might be nice is a way to associate each donation in Rapport with some sort of "deposit id" or Gnucash record transaction id, so that for a given donation in Rapport, we can find it's corresponding (lumped together) transaction in Gnucash. Adding such a field is obviously trivial. Automating any sort of connection between the two things is obviously much more complicated, and that's where I get stuck. -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/ _______________________________________________ software mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.flossfoundations.org/mailman/listinfo/foundations-software
