Hi all,
Am posting this on both ilugc and ilughyd.
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> 2a. Re: Kalculate, Tally, GNUCash
> http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/avsapdjango
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1. Gave up on Kalculate - no response from the co. and no community edition
either. Will strongly urge them to GPL it.
2. Not trying to run Tally on Ubuntu. Also Tally has expanded to include ERP
functionalities and cannot figure out from their site how to buy just the
accounting part. Will continue with external accountant if forced to use Tally.
3. GNUCash is on standby as its more tuned for US accounting. I would prefer an
India specific package. Will support one of the evolving ones till its ready
for use.
I looked at the 'avsap' link above but will appreciate feedback from actual
users. are there people using this software? Also updates to this seem to be
sporadic. KG generously offered a login to test it but I am yet to take him up
on it. Am not an accountant - what will I test? :-)
I also looked at GNUKhata. This seems to be under more active development and
am getting email digests from their user lists.
GNUKhata seems relatively more mature. Installation seems fairly simple on
Ubuntu 9.04. One issue is that they do not seem to have tested with an empty
Database. I had a few crashes when I was adding master data. I have not
proceeded to adding transactions yet.
At this point I am partial to GNUKhata. Will update afer I check out avsap.
I am looking at India specific accounting software as hopefully these will be
more in tune with Indian accounting and taxation practices. I also hope that as
these softwares mature, they will automatically calculate tax, depreciation etc
:-) I just want to enter data and click buttons for everything else :-)
I have to buy a book to learn accounting I guess (sigh!!! the travails of
entrepreneurship)
Cheers,
kc
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