You have quite the credentials there. I've written and rewritten several accounting systems both accrual and cash accounting in Fox DOS and Visual FoxPro. It has been a while. My needs are so simple I'm thinking a simple cash accounting system will do. I need to track expenses by category and time, income by category and time, summarize projects, and need an income/loss statement. Nothing very elaborate. R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, keith smith wrote: > Is there a need for an accounting application that will give > the user access to their data? > > What platform would it run on? Win or Linux or both? not sure who that was directed to -- my reply below: > R P Herrold wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, alex@crackpot.org wrote: > >> Once upon a time I had the job of integrating QuickBooks >> data with our online order processing system (PHP/MySQL >> application). > thanks!! I have worked in heterogenous environments (dumb serial terminal, Windows putty, *nix terminal program, mac OS/X terminal program) providing accounting (GL, AR, AP, check writing, financial reporting, custom reports, PR) (and indeed full shop floor management: Job costing, BOM, scheduling, pick lists, bill of lading) with a TUI interface with a couple of solutions: ROI, and Add+On, running respectively on HP-UX, and SCO (pre Daryl); I've written parts of over the years since s/360 days in COBOL (PR, inventory management, scheduling). My particular desire it to be able to ditch QuickBooks (basic accounting [therefore not even with tamper resistant journalling], and checkwriting) and by so doing, poweroff the Windows 95 box I keep alive for it, and to move to a FOSS solution, but to retain the ability to have a accounting professional not 'ream me' (by requiring re-keying all from scratch) if/when I need that accounting professional to 'bless' my books and the reports produced therefrom. I _can_ write it again; I just don't _want_ to do it alone nor should it need to be done from scratch in the FOSS world at this late date ;) -- Russ herrold --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ------------------------ Keith Smith (520) 207-9877 PHP Programmer --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.