OT: accounting via spreadsheet

[R P Herrold]

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 <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, alex at crackpot.org wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time I had the job of integrating QuickBooks 
>> data with our online order processing system (PHP/MySQL 
>> application). <snip>

> 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