Re: [board-discuss] TDF Accounting: an update

[Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com>]

Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
> Le mardi 22 mai 2012 à 16:14 +0200, Thorsten Behrens a écrit :
>> Hi there,
>>
>> getting on top of accounting these days. I use gnucash
>> (http://gnucash.org/), a Free and Open Source software for personal
>> and small-business accounting - Gnome-based, featuring double-entry
>> bookkeeping, and available for Linux. Mac and Windows. The ledger is
>> xml-based, and can be shared with board members.
>>
>> Sadly gnucash scripting is Scheme-based (yuck), so I use a second
>> FLOSS project called jgnucashlib
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgnucashlib/) for scriptable tasks
>> - as of today, for the PayPal transaction import, since that's where
>> the bulk of the movement happens (currently ~10-20 per day).
>>
>> Taken all together, I think a suitable choice for our entity - and
>> hopefully flexible and portable enough that it can be handed over
>> and/or shared easily.
>>
>> Up to now, mostly Florian and me have collected invoices, filed
>> them, and did the budget planning. To permit sharing
>> responsibilities there, and also to make it a bit easier for us to
>> keep information together, I propose to setup a private
>> treasurer@tdf mailing list. Budget updates, invoices, expense
>> reports, and also board decisions regarding budget approvals then
>> need to be sent to that list, such that we can accurately reflect
>> them in the ledger.

Agree

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