None of you can call yourselves accountants; you're just QwackBooks users. The truck drivers of the office. Your boss thinks of you as a whiny, tail-dragging . That's why he needs just one of you who knows the entire system. Maybe you'll get lucky with an assistant, but most likely they'll cause more problems, because it'll be the boss's daughter and she doesn't give a .
The patterns and practices that I demonstrate in the solution are nothing genius, it just took a while to put it all together, and it's very basic. Just one table with credit/debit columns, rows of which have to be organized into a transaction and linked with user-actions, like creating invoice, receiving payment, adjusting inventory, really anything, including foreign transactions.
When the calculator was invented, we didn't get stuck with a bunch of "calculator-operator" professions, so why does accounting get to stay stagnant?
What are your thoughts on plain text accounting? I know it's not really for businesses applications and really not for accountants but that's how I learnt accounting basics. I find that approach much better as I have total control of the structure. I suspect your application provides a similar level of control as the end company has to implement the details.
If plain text are roads, then my approach is rail roads. A strict set of application logic so the operator doesn't get overwhelmed and is capable of managing large number of transactions at higher speeds of entry.
Then, it's just a matter of building more rail roads for any additional functionality. Once built, you'd probably never have to touch that code again.
I will steal that, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!
I always wondered about starting from those constraints and working back to a basic accounting solution for your typical business person. It would probably cover 90% of the companies in the UK as most of them have really simple requirements.
Luckily I retired before I got around to it.
I love it. It reminds me, in tone, of the Acknowledgements section of the Scsh manual: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html