[ale] OT: Bank of America

Bob Toxen bob at verysecurelinux.com
Fri Nov 21 18:00:41 EST 2003


On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:22:20PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 13:20, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > Any good quickie tutorials on double-entry?  I'm thinking about starting
> > to use SQL Ledger.

> I would recommend a continuing education class in introductory
> accounting methods. They all use double entry (unlike Intuit products
> which mostly fake it).  Another good resource are used book stores.
> Accounting hasn't changed much in 100+ years so any "Introduction to
> Accounting" text will cover the topic well. My wife found most of her
> text books for grad school on ebay. She paid (counting shipping!) about
> 1/2 what the school was charging for the used books.

>  I am still a big fan of sql-ledger. It is a great tool. But a client
> just sent me a link to ossuite. It is MUCH easier to use than (on a
> cursory glance) than Compiere but has more stuff than sql-ledger.

Many adult education programms offer "Introduction to Accounting,"
which is what you want if you prefer that over "reading a book".  I don't
know that tutorials are out there.  Try google.

> http://www.ossuite.org/
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Bob



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