Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:10:36AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> The only problem with GnuCash was the U/I: it made it exceedingly
> awkward to work with large #s of accounts, because of all the modal
> dialogs to enter them. Nothing wrong with the concept.
As you said, what Money/Quicken call Categories are really accounts.
The Account structure can really be inferred as you enter them. One of
the things I wished GnuCash would have done would be to automatically
prune unused accounts. They don't need to hide the double-entry-ness,
but they do need to make it easy. I forget the specifics, but to really
do it right and make everything end up "properly zeroed out" you needed
sometimes multiple accounts to represent the same entity -- I'm thinking
of receiving a paycheck from an employer who also funds your 401K and
pays your taxes. Only your gross pay is "Accounts Payable." There
would be a super-account to represent your employer, who makes various
transactions to your Tax account, 401K accounts payable,
Gross-Pay-Accounts-Payable. Then you have to have transactions to move
things from the accounts payable to your Checking, Cash, or 401K Balance
account. Only *then* can you start to track how you keep the money.
I'm remembering now that's when I gave up -- I was going to have to
enter multiple accounts per "entity", and there was no autopruning or
bookeeping assistance, so it was going to be a maintenance nightmare.
But really the whole account structure was easily inferrrable, it is
doable with the right U/I.
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