Are any of these going to be Open source and publicly available cause I'm interested if so.
2009/4/13 Nicholas Orr <[email protected]> > I've looked into doing my own accounting app as well. Sitting with an > accountant the main thing she had an issue with, in regard to all the > products currently available, is tracking what the amount is for on each > side of the transaction. > > Example, say I as an individual transfer $10K into a company I'm a director > of. On the individual side (withdraw) of the transaction info needs to be > recorded as one thing, then on the other side (deposit) different > information needs to be recorded. This whole transaction needs to exist in > both places so come tax time the account doing the work for tax can follow > everything simply. > > The concept of schema-less documents now starts to shine as ideal. I have a > few other projects on the go right now and will not be getting to this one > anytime soon. Interested in what you guys come up with :) > > Nick > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Bruno Ronchetti <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi Zhengji, > > > > I am in fact working on something similar (think of it as a GnuCash on > > Couch). > > > > So far I have tested the following concepts: > > - storing the "accounting entries" as an array alongside the original > > source document > > - storing the "chart of accounts" in the same database as the source > > documents (with a special _id) > > - building a view that combines "chart of accounts" and "accounting > > entries" together in order to obtain the "general ledger". > > > > So far so good. > > > > I am an absolute beginner (both with couch and the web) and I haven't > done > > volume testing, but at the conceptual level CouchDB looks like a very > clean > > and powerful solution for this class of problems, IMHO. > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > On 13/apr/09, at 08:15, 厉正吉 wrote: > > > > Hi all, > >> > >> I wonder if I could make a browser based persional finance manager > >> with CouchDB as back-end database. > >> > >> Is CouchDB suitable for this application? > >> > > > > >
