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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by clashandcarry on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:34PM (#36022551)
Also, none of the open source alternatives support simultaneous multiuser access.

Users can slowly adapt, but most businesses larger than a sole proprietorship need multiuser capability.

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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by wrycoder on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:23PM (#36023952)
This is a big one. I switched from GnuCash to QBO for a non-profit because of that.
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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by toyg on Sunday May 21, 2023 @04:03PM (#36024239)
One would think it can't be that hard to put together a webapp to freaking sum up some numbers, but nobody seem to want to do it in open source.

It could be because it's indeed so easy that it's boring, or could be that anyone with the necessary knowledge of accounting standards makes way more money doing other stuff than coding for free.

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Re:The End of the Accounting Search by antiloper on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:58AM (#36028597)
I'd assume that the overlap between capable open source developers and people who enjoy accounting enough to write their own accounting solution is fairly small.
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