I can get all my historic accounting records into any of the PTA tools, but then I'm stuck without standard processes for creating invoices, doing deposits, writing off bad debts, depreciation, loan repayments, recurring payments, etc. etc.
All those require standard entries and processes, which I've yet to find, which means that now I need to become an accountant and write these standard tools.
None of which generates any income and only creates more work for myself.
I absolutely hate my current accounting software, but this is not (yet) a viable option as far as I can tell.
There was a time when overnight I received 200 copies of an email in my inbox. The emails were sent manually, typos, delays and all. Very industrious individual.
I was discussing this with a colleague of mine the next day and it transpired that they'd recently taken delivery of two DEC Alpha workstations. They were both sitting on his desk, being configured for actual work.
We set up a system using .forward files where DEC Alpha 1 would forward an email to DEC Alpha 2. On DEC Alpha 2 we set up the same in reverse.
We sent an email to DEC Alpha 1 and CC'd in our individual.
We let it run for 5 seconds.
In that time the two workstations, doing nothing other than sending email, managed a combined 25k of messages.
We never did hear from that person again.
These days when I think back about that, it was probably one of the early DOS attacks. We were a little shocked how well it worked.
All those require standard entries and processes, which I've yet to find, which means that now I need to become an accountant and write these standard tools.
None of which generates any income and only creates more work for myself.
I absolutely hate my current accounting software, but this is not (yet) a viable option as far as I can tell.
Happy to learn I'm wrong.
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