The Grumpy Editor's next project [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's next project

Posted May 10, 2007 3:38 UTC (Thu) by socket (subscriber, #43)
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While it may seem redundant to make yet another personal finance application, that's exactly what I've been working on since about two weeks before paying this year's taxes.

I would like to solicit resources from anyone who knows: I'd like to get the accounting part right, and I'm sure Jon Corbet would too. I suspect the feature set he needs is very different from what I need, since the most complicated thing I have to worry about is a Schedule C and SE, but if anyone knows accounting, now would be a good time to chime in.

Books? Articles? Where does one learn a useful amount of accounting without getting another degree?

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Wikibooks has answers...

Posted May 10, 2007 6:06 UTC (Thu) by mpgoodwin (subscriber, #33555) [Link]

Wikibooks seems to have a volume which goes into some detail about accounting - With definitions and math to boot.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Accounting

Martin

The Grumpy Editor's next project

Posted May 11, 2007 6:50 UTC (Fri) by dvainsencher (subscriber, #4143) [Link]

Martin Fowler's "Analysis Patterns" includes a chapter about Accounts, which I found very illuminating. It gives the 10,000 meter altitude view, so don't expect something very specific to your application.