Re: ERP standards

[Neil Tiffin]

At 3:18 PM -0800 2/23/02, Todd Boyle wrote:
> GNUE project is certainly not unique in ignoring various
> standards of course.  We should count our blessings and
> salute Neil, Derek, and other key developers for their generosity
> in offering this open source project to the community.  They're

Having worked with GNUE for almost 2 years I think the issue is NOT 
the lack of desire to use standards.  I for one would much rather use 
someone else's prior work in the form of standards instead of trying 
to create a beast from scratch.

My problem is that I am not an accountant and don't have the time to 
sort through all of the noise (standards that are being proposed, but 
will never be implemented or represent an accepted standard).

I have not found an accounting standard that applies to GNUe.  There 
are all sorts of standard that are vying for control of how 
accounting is done.  But I have not found one that is geared for 
internal systems.  Most of the ones mentioned, so far, have been for 
data interchange and they are not currently practical for high volume 
transactions internal to a company.

Of course, my look at accounting standard has only been cursory, so 
please feel free to enlighten me if a standard exists that is 
practical.

Neil