Hello Ed: I have been following this thread on and off so please forgive me if I am completely off the tangent.
You know with any work one should really define the scope before there can be a cost and etc., and in this case here not having the scope could hurt you in convenincing anyone to chip in. In the same token, the scope is probably what's going to stop other businesses from chipping in because it is probably rare that two businesses having the same requirements. In fact, other businesses could probably wait until 1.3 is released. You said you have out grown SL and my guess is that you have probably more out grown the "development community/monopoly." From your emails it seems to me that LSMB 1.3 is gonna be your savior, but if your numbers aren't matching right now then they are probably not going to match until LSMB has completely rewrote the financial logics. I am no expert in LSMB, but I have used SL since 2002 for my business. I think there is not one accounting system that could solve everyone's problems, but procedures implementation should be able to make up a lot. Then the remaining could probably be left for software customization, which we all know could be very costly to produce and maintain. Take COGS for instance, SL's had never genereated a number that is usable for us so we tackle it by procedure implementation and customized monthend reporting to correct that number. Each quarter and yearend we give our numbers to our accountant (which really isn't that expensive comparing to our revenues) and it make sense to him and he files our taxes for us (keep good audit trails because good accountant will ask questions, and my experience tells me that the bank care more about our tax returns than our income statements and balance sheets). So $2000 isn't a lot or very little money but may be it is better given to a local consultant where you can put your hands around his/her neck if needed. Or yet, you can probably by a commercial accounting system. Hope you do get this issue resolved for your business or for your clients that are planning on using LSMB. Best of luck! Tim > Hi > >>> That said, I myself have floated the idea of community funding several >>> times on #ledgersmb. >>> >> >> If people are up for it, my own schedule is fully booked for a little >> while, but my business is expanding and adding people to help with >> LedgerSMB so I am open to the option. >> > > > Offlist: > > My personal problem is that I have now outgrown SL and LSMB doesn't yet > seem to fix my problems (it not always adding up correctly is one of > them...). I have looked around at the alternatives and LSMB still seems > to be one of the best products out there, but it's not quite stable yet > (I don't feel...) > > So I need something pretty imminently... I have a small business to run > and I'm spending too much of my time running the books... > > How can we speed things up... (probably answers back on list) > > Thanks for LSMB - good luck > > Ed W > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/_______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
