RE: [Fsfe-uk] UKFSN makes a profit

[Chris Puttick]

GPL - written AFAIK by someone with a similar history to yourself...

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Elphick
To: Jason Clifford
Cc: Chris Puttick; 'address@hidden '
Sent: 9/7/03 11:03 PM
Subject: RE: [Fsfe-uk] UKFSN makes a profit

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:48, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Chris Puttick wrote:
> 
> > http://sql-ledger.org
> > 
> > Just needs appropriate chart of accounts. This is being used for
hosting
> > company accounting systems as a viable business. Surely this would
suggest
> > it's up to scratch?
> 
> I am inclined to agree that SQL Ledger is very good. There are others
too.
> 
> As I said before all that is lacking is the localised tax handling for

> both corporate reporting and payroll and the thing that really holds
that 
> back is the timely preparation of the necessary tables.
> 
> If an accountant is willing to take the business and use a given
packages 
> such as SQL Ledger or Gnucash I'm fairly sure AFFS could refer a lot
of 
> business their way including mine.

I was an accountant until I discovered computing...For that matter I
still am a member of the ICAEW.  I have also written accounting and
payroll software in the past.

As for SQL Ledger, I couldn't at a quick glance find its copyright.  Is
it actually free software?

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