[porter]

What are the best alternatives?

[journal]

https://github.com/denys-olleik/accounting

Doing my best wish someone would help.

[ibejoeb]

Cool. Looking forward to going through it.

>Have CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS postgis; installed.

Why is postgis a requirement for an accounting package?

[laleck]

For pure bookkeeping at a small scale, I really like plain text accounting with beancount and fava

Bookkeeping is easy but labor intensive. Dealing with US tax law... That's when you spend on a local CPA.

[cyrusradfar]

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