Revitalization of npoacct project; Brett Smith will take over as project lead

[Tim Schofield]

Firstly my apologies, when I replied earlier I didn't notice that my
phone was only replying to Dave, and not to the list. Hope it is ok to
bring in the list now

On 25 August 2016 at 18:19, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>
> On 25 August 2016 at 09:53, Tim Schofield <tim.schofield1960 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have never really understood why people feel that NPO's need a different
>> accounting package than other organisations. There is really nothing
>> different on a transaction level be ween an NPO and a for profit
>> organisation.
>
> What for-profit accounting that is libre software do you think shoud be
> used?

An NPO would need some or all of the following. A General Ledger,
Sales and Purchase ledgers, Stock, Fixed Assets, with the possibility
of Payroll. These are precisely the same needs as a for profit
organisation.

To answer Dave's question there are a number of libre accounting
systems that do this (with the possible exception of Payroll which for
various reasons is harder to do in libre package due to the vast range
of different laws in different countries). It really depends on what
you are looking for - web based, CLI based, GUI etc.

Tim


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