Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > jtd wrote: > > | According to those who know Tally is the worst possible software you > | could use to manage your accounting. Search for Saswata and KG's post > | on this list. > > The positives for Tally include: [i] it doesn't really expect the end > user to have an expertise equivalent to a CA Neither do most of the other accounting software. The entire concept of ERP is that people do their normal work and accounts gets updated. If you are going to do entire accounting without the help of an accountant (not necessarily a CA, but an accountant), then either you have to be very small business or be prepared for a huge lot of problems and issues. > [ii] fairly rapid inclusion > of business rules according to Government directives I do not see business rules according to government directives being put into Tally. They still do not have a mandatory TDS rule. The software depends on the users to remember to deduct tax at source. (Disclaimer : I stopped using tally after version 7.2 stage) > [iii] an enterprise > edition that allows distributed data collection points and consolidated > reporting > Tally is yet to launch an enterprise edition. They have refunded money to all their clients who had paid advance for the Enterise and ERP version of tally. I know this because many people from Tally Enterise Sales have left and joined accounting software companies we do work with and I got first hand information on it. Dont hold your breath on it.
The only thing it does is to allow accounts from multiple locations (read - databases) to be merged into a single database. Nothing more. Any correction you do on the central system can not be taken back to the original locations. > Shouldn't really be too difficult to get a similar thing going if [i] is > available. I guess NRCFOSS would be a good place to try this out given > their recent success in the creation of a conference management software > But the problems with Tally are must more deep rooted. (I suspect you have not bother to read the prev posts on the matter). It allows the user to delete and insert data into any book at any time for any date. It automatically renumbers the vouchers and leaves no audit trail. As a result, if an user changes data, the business owners will never find out. This complete lack of data integrity is a very worrying matter for any business owner who is not sitting and doing all his accounts on his own. Anyone wanting to know more about Tally and its problems, take this offline with me. Of I will meet all of you somewhere if this is to be discussed. If you can wean people away from Tally and that gene of software, then it would do them a favour. Regards Saswata > > > > > - -- > > > > You see things; and you say 'Why?'; > But I dream things that never were; > and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw > www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH01PGXQZpNTcrCzMRAm3kAKCCsEH1MSgs8AnWW/rMl8c6V9noJACgzXCv > CT5iK2jPKsJCDuWlJGcdqBM= > =26gT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
