On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Shridhar Daithankar <ghodech...@ghodechhap.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 20:03:12 Devendra Laulkar wrote: >> I am speculating that "tally" over linux was suggested since it will >> be "one step forward" - using open source in incremental fashion >> rather than a complete switch over - Or maybe something else (still >> not getting connection with elephants) > > I had a long talk with my CA friend about this. He wants to use free software > as far as possible but tally remains the de-facto leader and there is some > reason. > > As far as accounting is concerned, tally is easy to replace with. Of course, > this does not mean you can import tally data but accounting functionality of > tally is all available with other packages, may be sqledger or some such. > > Main value of tally is it tracks the indian laws/regulations closely and > mirror them in implementation. In turn this makes very easy for tally users to > follow government requirements on various fronts. Things are just there to be > clicked, printed submitted. > > And that is a ongoing job and hence tally remains not-so-easily replacable for > this functionality. >
Or as I heard from another accountant, its easier to cook books in tally (since it knows the rules/laws). Karunakar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to plug-mail-requ...@plug.org.in for mailing instructions.