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+#+TITLE:     Replacements for Tally
+#+AUTHOR:    Anoop Jacob Thomas
+#+EMAIL:     info@fossee.in
+#+DATE:      2011-05-10 Tue
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+* GNUKhata
+
+** About the GNUKhata
+
+GNUKhata is a free and open source software for accounting that
+supports a wide range of applications in every field of economic
+activity, including factory or farm-based production, point of sales
+accounting & inventory and work in the service sector.  While it
+serves such traditional accounting requirements, its special feature
+is that it can support emerging sectors of the economy who are being
+required to keep audited accounts, such as self-help groups, craft
+producers and micro-finance groups. GNUKhata is highly customisable,
+given its open source nature. It can be easily transformed into Indian
+languages, largely unreached by existing software solutions. GNUKhata
+is soon to be extended to include a payroll section. We hope to take
+it to a stage where it can become a tool for remote banking.
+
+*** Advantages of GNUKhata
+    - It is lightweight and scales up with large volumes of data 
+    - It is robust and can be used on a wide variety of data categories 
+    - It is modular, thus facilitating addition of extensions for different tasks 
+    - The user interface is designed to be intuitive and friendly even for beginners 
+    - The reports are in the form of spreadsheets in ODS format 
+    - The soon to be released web application will run through a web browser
+    - Deployment will find the implementation easy to achieve
+    - GNUKhata is a free software, sometimes referred to as free and open source software or FOSS 
+
+*** Features of GNUkhata
+    - Maintaining books of accounts 
+    - Vouchers, bills, invoices and other documents needed in day-to-day accounting 
+    - Ledgers, journals and other reports related to books of accounts 
+    - Inventory-related tasks at any point of sales 
+    - Sales data through a variety of report formats 
+    - 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 
+    - Managing micro-finance units 
+
+** List of Courses/Subjects/Areas where GNUkhata can be used
+   - Financial Accounting
+   - Inventory Systems
+   - Micro-Finance Companies
+   - Banking
+   - Insurance
+
+** Learning Resources for GNUkhata
+   - GNUKhata Manual - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/GNUKhata%20Manual
+   - Developer Documentations - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/Developer%20documentation
+   - Web based GNUKhata - http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/wiki/web%20based%20GNUKhata