Friday, 2013-11-08

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joarbkuhn: hello!17:37
joarI haven't gotten to much the last few days17:37
joarI'm going to look at the fund accounting use case for the existing projects17:38
joarbkuhn: is double-entry accounting a UseCase/requirement too?17:43
bkuhnjoar: defintley17:43
joarI would have guessed so, but I'm not sure of the <reason> part17:44
joaris it required by some kind of law or best practise, or is it simply the implicit norm for bookkeeping?17:45
bkuhnoh, reason is easy: in the USA, any bookkeeping system that isn't double-entry would likely not be considered appropriate GAAP17:52
bkuhnyou can link GAAP to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_accepted_accounting_principles17:53
bkuhnGAAP is an odd thing.17:53
bkuhnIt's not the "law"17:53
bkuhnbut accountants would tell the IRS "we think something bad is going on" if you didn't follow GAAP17:53
bkuhnAlso, GAAP isn't a list of rules.17:53
bkuhnIt's basically 'rough consensus' of accountants17:53
bkuhnSo, it's somewhere in between "implicit norm" and the "law"17:54
bkuhnin the sense that you'd probably loose your non-profit status from the IRS if your auditors said you weren't following GAAP17:54
joarI see17:56
joarthat's a concrete <reasone>17:56
joarwe could even leave it as implicit17:56
bkuhnjoar: nah, go ahead and add it!18:22
joarwill do19:15
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