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- From: koehn@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- Subject: Re: 4D and accounting problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.205059.24919@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 17 DEC 92 14:44:05
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- In article <BzDKIx.KM9@umassd.edu>, rufus@cis.umassd.edu (Rui N. Campos) writes...
-
- >Hello, everyone, I'm new to this group and I have a question. I am a 4D
- >developer, and I have just been contracted to do a database for a retail firm.
- >This database invloves the usual things: inventory, Acounts Payable,
- >Accounts Receivable, Vendor maintenance... I have never done any 4D work
- >that required accounting. My question is: Is 4D suitable for general ledger,
- >and payroll, among other accounting problems, or am I better off looking
- >elsewhere?
- >
- >One more question. How is 4d's performance over networks, and what is a good
- >server for this?
-
- I wrote a database in 4D for a client that did some similar things and my advice
- to you is this: don't do the accounting crap in 4D. Just buy some third party
- package (Insight from Peachtree, or Great Plains) and just export the records to
- it. Both of the aforementioned packages have pre-fab external kits that allow
- you to post records to them with a bare minimum of hassle, and they make sure
- that proper accounting procedure is followed.
-
- I'm not an accountant. I hate accounting, and if I can help it I will never
- ever write an accounting system. There are programs out there already that do
- this, and much better than anything that I could write, and I'm happy using
- them.
-
- Just my opinion. And no, I am not affiliated with any software companies
- mentioned in this article.
-
- Brad Koehn
- koehn@macc.wisc.edu
-
-