On September 12, 2018, at 11:08 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>It’s not a bit disingenuous. Consider the millions of mostly satisfied Quicken >users out there, some of whom wander our way and wonder why they should have >to learn about accounting just to track their bank accounts. IMO most of them >would be happier with KMyMoney, which operates a lot more like Quicken does. >GnuCash is a formal accounting program for people who want that. No need for a >CPA, Accounting 101 at the local community college will suffice. There’s no >reason for GnuCash to cater to people who don’t have that knowledge when there >are alternatives that >So maybe the first thing to change in the T&CG is the first paragraph of the >Introduction: >"GnuCash is the personal finance software package made for you. It is >versatile enough to keep track of all your financial information, from the >simple to the very complex. It is one of the few financial software packages >that supports global currencies, and it is the only open-source program of its >kind. Best of all, GnuCash is easy to learn and use!” "Gnucash is the finance software package that's a bitch to learn and use! At least it's open source!" - - It has a definite ring to it! ;) Seriously, I'll look at ways to make that a little less breathless. >GnuCash isn’t at all a personal finance software package and it isn’t made for >everyone. It’s a formal accounting software package and it’s made for people >who run small businesses, are fiduciaries of some sort, have complicated >finances, or are compulsive about using formal accounting. If it was easy to >learn and use we wouldn’t be having this discussion. >Now back to creating a new book. >I didn’t propose shunting off creating the basic accounts to the ANBA. I >proposed that File>New would create the accounts currently created by the set >of accounts selected by default in the current NAHSA. It contains two bank >accounts (“savings” and “checking” in the en_US one) and cash-in-wallet under >Assets:Current Assets, A range of income and expense accounts, Equity:Opening >Balances, and a single credit card account under Liabilities. The other >add-ons are mostly trivial or insufficient (for an example of the latter, >investment includes dividend income but not capital gains). Indeed. I wonder whether there's some better mechanism for getting users up and running with a set of books... David >Regards, >John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
