|
 No accounting software can be everything to everyone. What is too complicated for one user is too simple for another. Many of us here in the TurboCASH project have been in the accounting software development business for many years. We take pride in the fact that we are able to take something as complex as the accounting process and present it as a day to day garden application. Making it more featured or easier to use is a decision directed by our users.
Nobody starts out with the intention of making a program difficult to use. As developers we are always balancing this process - ease of use and adoptability against performance and features. Below us are spreadsheets, simple invoicing packages and personal money managers. Above us are ERP packages and workflow managers. As the project leader of TurboCASH accounting I have been developing software for over 30 years. I have developed software used by millions of users (TurboCAD), Currently, we have over 110 000 registered TurboCASH users in 80 countries. TurboCASH is the worlds leading open source acocunting software. I would NEVER willingly produce a package that is one screen more complicated that it has to be. accounting software open source accounting free accounting Read the full article Stop being a pussy.
Your time is limited because of your inefficiency in how you run and manage your business. With the information system that you have at your disposal, you are unable to make the critical decisions that can transform you from a survivor into a player. There is a reason that 70% of senior managers of large corporations are accountants and the other 30% learned it on the street anyway. Business is about counting transactions. See the forum topic and comments
We fill the gap in the middle - businesses that will usually have VAT and some form of debtors control. The itch that we scratch is that our users usually have to report directly or indirectly to tax authorities. This can be from a one man business such as myself up to a business with say 10 accountants. What is unique for us, is the fact that in this narrow band we make TurboCASH as flexible as possible. The multi language feature is key to this. We do not run separate versions of the code. Each release is instantly available to all language participants. We estimate the market for this at 20 Million and we are targeting 5%, so we expect the TurboCASH Community to grow to 1 Million under the current technology.
There are two key characteristics that we CHOOSE to implement here. Note I say CHOOSE, because obviously we have thought about making it simpler and decided against it. Firstly we choose double entry accounting. This is a language that has been adopted by accountants for five hundred years. Today it is still the language of bank managers, tax collectors, angel investors, family bookkeepers and debtors clerks. Learn this language and you plug into this community. Resists this and you will always look financially naive and even appear stupid and irresponsible to them. Financial people will regard you with suspicion. There is no such thing in accounting as something "plain and straightforward.". Its either accounting or its not accounting. I agree with you that accounting systems is daunting when you first approach them. However the double entry batch system has stood for over 300 years, and neither your or my distaste for it is nto going to make it go away. If you want to play the game of real business, then the language is double entry accounting. Here is the worst of it, if you don't grasp these concepts, no financial party will ever take you seriously. At best they will look on you with the patronage with which you look on young children, at worst they will ignore you completely oreven part you from the small bits of capital you have accumulated. If you are angry with me for talking like this, your anger is misdirected. I did not make these rules I am simply the messenger. What we do do in TurboCASH is shield you from the many Debit- Credit decisions. We can't quarantine you, but we do minimize it. Follow our rules and your business makes financial sense to an outsider looking in.
Secondly we use the batch processing method. The input form - database process and log - report writer approach is opposite to the real time update that you will have with a spreadsheet. The difference is that you can track hundreds of thousands of transactions with TurboCASH and you have a complete log if its history. We understand the humans make errors, so buy allowing you to reverse batches, we combine the best of both worlds.
If these concepts are strange - we have a 300 page tutorial format handbooks that will take you through these concepts and specifically how they relate to TurboCASH - Accounting Made Easy
|
