1 #+TITLE:     Replacements for Tally

     2 #+AUTHOR:    Anoop Jacob Thomas

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     4 #+DATE:      2011-05-10 Tue

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    18 * GNUKhata

    19 

    20 ** About the GNUKhata

    21 

    22 GNUKhata is a free and open source software for accounting that

    23 supports a wide range of applications in every field of economic

    24 activity, including factory or farm-based production, point of sales

    25 accounting & inventory and work in the service sector.  While it

    26 serves such traditional accounting requirements, its special feature

    27 is that it can support emerging sectors of the economy who are being

    28 required to keep audited accounts, such as self-help groups, craft

    29 producers and micro-finance groups. GNUKhata is highly customisable,

    30 given its open source nature. It can be easily transformed into Indian

    31 languages, largely unreached by existing software solutions. GNUKhata

    32 is soon to be extended to include a payroll section. We hope to take

    33 it to a stage where it can become a tool for remote banking.

    34 

    35 *** Advantages of GNUKhata

    36     - It is lightweight and scales up with large volumes of data 

    37     - It is robust and can be used on a wide variety of data categories 

    38     - It is modular, thus facilitating addition of extensions for different tasks 

    39     - The user interface is designed to be intuitive and friendly even for beginners 

    40     - The reports are in the form of spreadsheets in ODS format 

    41     - The soon to be released web application will run through a web browser

    42     - Deployment will find the implementation easy to achieve

    43     - GNUKhata is a free software, sometimes referred to as free and open source software or FOSS 

    44 

    45 *** Features of GNUkhata

    46     - Maintaining books of accounts 

    47     - Vouchers, bills, invoices and other documents needed in day-to-day accounting 

    48     - Ledgers, journals and other reports related to books of accounts 

    49     - Inventory-related tasks at any point of sales 

    50     - Sales data through a variety of report formats 

    51     - Use over the Internet to link points-of-sales units or collection points (for milk, savings etc) with each other and to a central server 

    52     - Managing micro-finance units 

    53 

    54 ** List of Courses/Subjects/Areas where GNUkhata can be used

    55    - Financial Accounting

    56    - Inventory Systems

    57    - Micro-Finance Companies

    58    - Banking

    59    - Insurance

    60 

    61 ** Learning Resources for GNUkhata

    62    - GNUKhata Manual - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/GNUKhata%20Manual

    63    - Developer Documentations - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/Developer%20documentation

    64    - Web based GNUKhata - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/web%20based%20GNUKhata