Re: GnuCash performance is too slow

Minh Van Le wrote:
>>> Hey is there anybody seriously using GnuCash for personal
>> finance management
>>> ?

<snip>

>> If you want scalable, you could try ledgersmb. I've used it for
>> years and it
>> breezes through my work - postgres back end, web front end.
>>
>> I'm sure there are others too.
> 
> I'll check out ledgersmb. Sounds like it does things the right way to begin
> with. (Separation of the accounting client, interfaces et al. from the
> backend data store).
> 
> For personal accounting I'm aware of
> 
>   Linux
>   -----
>   GnuCash
>   KmyMoney
>   Eqonomize
> 
>   Non-Linux
>   ---------
>   MoneyDance
>   MS Money
>   Quicken Personal
> 
> I think there're also MYOB ports to Linux.
> 

I used to use MYOB on Macintosh. Although it did have some good features, 
overall I've found LedgerSMB (which is a fork of SQL-Ledger) to be a much better 
option. Not only that, but both forks offer professional support that actually 
works, ie, email/skype/remote log-in help from the authors that fixes things and 
is available within 24 hours. Try that from MS Money or MYOB!

If you are talking about PERSONAL accounting, I still think a spread sheet is as 
a good as anything. My business does about 50 transactions a week and LedgerSMB 
is probably overkill, but does have some nice features so I use it. If you carry 
stock or do manufacturing, then it has features that should be really helpful. I 
haven't used them though. If you carry 30 day accounts (I try not to) then it's 
also very helpful.




>> FWIW, my accountant does just about everything on excel spread sheets!
> 
> Yeah I suppose.
> 

I should have added that she extracts everything from my LedgerSMB databases 
which she can access on line. THEN she finishes everything on spreadsheets.


> I'm not an accountant. But I'm doing Accounting 1 & 2 subjects via Distance
> Education at CSU as part of a combined Business & IT degree.
> 
> I don't know what accountants do, but I'd be confident in saying that
> spreadsheets won't cut it for daily transactional business accounting,
> unless you're just pulling a few dozen totals from a financial package to
> fix up an End-Of-Year tax return.
> 
> GnuCash is hopeless imo.

I have never even started it up, so I can't comment, but like I said.. it's 
promoted for PERSONAL accounting. That usually means balancing a cheque book and 
  not a lot more. Horses for courses ;-)

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