On Friday 22 September 2006 16:06, Richard Hosking wrote:
> From a quick Google search for open source accounting packages
> The only one that appears to be easily downloadable and
> usable/modifiable under an open licence without cost is GnuCash.
> This is based in C and Lisp
> Any ideas about others?

SQL ledger is good, easy to install and customize - but requires a lot of 
customization for Australian purposes

I had tried "DoubleTalk" ??? at some stage in the past - was written in Python 
by Tim O'Reilly (the son of the famous tech book company)

Then I wrote my own - my wife liked it very much (for it's exterem 
simplicity), but I never spent the time to create an export routine in a 
format our accountant could understand, and we succumbed to the suggestion to 
use MYOB - every single person of my staff and especially my wife who do the 
main book keeping hate MYOB with zealous passion. Their shanmeless rip-off 
strategy was the final straw - so once again I am looking for alternatives. 
Maybe I just have to swallow the bitter pill and write (or outsource) an 
export function that allows our accountant's MYOB to import the data

Or is somebody else familiar with the various financial data formats and keen 
to write such export function?

I suspect MYOB only ever caught on because accountants recommend it - and they 
only recommend it because MYOB makes book keeping look so difficult that 
accountants are needed for it

Horst
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