[Leaplist] Something new ??

[Jason Boxman]

On Sunday 17 February 2008 20:10, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> [ Answering my own post ... ]
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 20:02 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > I.e., Get the Dummies guide.  ;)
>
> Do _not_ get an "accounting" book.  In fact, "Accounting for Dummies" is
> written for non-analytics, like managers or wanna-be MBAs.
>
> Get a "bookkeeping" book.  Get a book that teaches you paper-based
> booking, not something that teaches you how to use software.  The book
> should only do that as an annex or "practice."
>
> The "Bookkeeping for Dummies" isn't bad, but _ignore_ the software
> chapters or examples, stick with the paper-based content.  There are
> other books out there as well.

Yeah, I had a semester in high school.  Good stuff.  I prefer having a GL, but 
for my personal stuff Moneydance doesn't do GL -- it's more like Quicken -- 
and sports nice charts, graphs, and online account integration.  (Before that 
I was using Gnucash.  I do miss the GL.)  Gnucash couldn't even muster enough 
developer interest to migrate to GTK2 after it had been out for at least five 
years, is always using bleeding edge libraries, and has a tendency to always 
go with Gnome libraries that end up orphaned years later.  Report 
customization offered in scheme is simply frightening.

Anyway.

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Jason Boxman
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