[juno] Next Step

[Chris Albertson]

PS:


Scott, is your local machines clock screwed up? Youre emails all come across as 
being sent at like 8:30AM.




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Chris Albertson


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Quoting Chris Albertson <alb@chrisalbertson.com>:




> While I am a fan of the double entry accounting system, I think we need to


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> the question "who is the target user of this package?" If it is business,


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> double entry is the way to go. The detail you get from that is great.


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> However, if the target is your general lazy home user who wants a web-based


> "quicken/MS Money-type" replacement package... I don't think they will want


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> do double entry. Double entry has a lot of positives, but it's time


> consuming.


> (Not to mention that not many people have either had accounting


> experience/classes, or remember that stuff.)


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> I just think that double entry will remove a lot of users from the mix.


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> Thoughts?


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> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:


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> > > The method for which I am going to implement the Accounting side is via


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> > > Double Entry accounting.  For each entry in an Account, an opposite entry


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> > I know nothing about accounting theory, but it seems like this would have a


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> > tough time accounting for income (anything outside of a closed system)...


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