[Northwales] Re: [Menai-LUG] Meeting/event - notes from the meeting

[Eion MacDonald]

VAT , links only intelligible to an accountant.
VAT set up example in GnuCash needs a typical complete but small set of 
accounts  and ability to split transaction and allocate automatically 
not manually.

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Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> (portmanteau reply)
> 
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:56, Eion MacDonald wrote:
>> Will you cover this in your applications point.
>> (VAT accounting, it is major reason I still dual boot to Windows!)
> 
> Yes, this certainly needs to be addressed before we offer solutions.  GnuCash, 
> however, 
> does seem to handle VAT, eg
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-April/013417.html
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-November/015074.html
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-March/013233.html
> These are quite old, so it may even have improved since then - I haven't 
> looked at the app for some time.  We might have to do a briefing note on the 
> website walking people through using GnuCash for VAT to make it a more viable 
> alternative.
> 
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:33, Oli wrote:
>>  I would be interested to speak to
>> someone about Thyme and GnuCash - I always find its the apps that make
>> people want the OS - not the other way around!
> 
> Gnucash - http://www.gnucash.org
> Thyme - http://www.clocksoft.co.uk
> 
>>