I was an accountant for a SaaS business with operations in the US. It was B2B, and used a plug-in (Vertex) with the ERP to calculate sales tax in each state.
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Are there that many biomass plants? Or is it just Drax? Which is something of an asterisk in the "no coal" story, in that the UK's largest coal burner is still running, just on imported wood pellets. Supposedly from sawmill waste in the US and Canada. I'm not sure how "green" that really is.
I once did a back of the envelope calculation that if you tried to run Drax on domestic timber only you would consume every tree in the country within a year.
Doesn't seem to be sawmill waste
It's Excel, so just write a macro?
gidorah commented on Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager firefly-iii.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I tried Firefly for a year but I could not find a nice workflow with it.
It was a maintainability nightmare. Needed to run 2 instances for my girlfriend and myself. A third instance I think for automatic imports from my bank.
Every 2/3 months whenever the integration with the Spectre API needed to be reauthorized another docker container had to be ran just to hit a reauthorize button. And then it was a battle with duplicate transactions which I could manage to fix but I could never make my girlfriend understand.
Then there was weird philosophy on incoming money in a category. Let's say you have a €200 diner with 3 friends. You pay the whole bill and get €150 back from your friends later. Firefly would tell you you spend €200 euros on restaurants instead of just €50.
Happily back to Ynab now.
Having to record all inbound cash as income was a deal breaker for me. I wanted to like Firefly, but couldn't because of this.
There is literally no other accounting software that works like this.
gidorah commented on Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager firefly-iii.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I am already using GNUCash.
How does this compare?
I, too, use Gnucash.
Gnucash is an actual double entry bookkeeping system. Firefly is not.
I want to like Firefly, but you cannot properly record all liabilities. Also, you can't mix income and expenses in the same account. For example, if I get a refund, it has to go to an income account. Not net off against an expense, which is the usual way bookkeeping.
I'm a UK accountant, but I'm currently working as a finance software analyst.
I spend quite a bit of time coding to solve problems. Normally turning a csv into another csv (Python), or writing Javascript for our ERP (Netsuite).
There is little competiton for roles, they're well paid, and you get exposed to some interesting(?), process type problems.
My point is that there are lots of careers where coding isn't the main thrust of the role, but is really useful.
I learned Python whilst in a role where I was underemployed and it looked enough like work that no-one bithered me about it. I also fart around with computers and code in the evenings.
I am sure there are tasks you could automate in your own role to give you confidence in other roles. Or maybe even carve our a more coding based niche. Understand code and law? Great!
I was recently in this position.
As "boring" as this is, I flashed them with Lineage and donated them to a charity that refurbishes and passes tech onto others.
I created a Flask app called holly. It was originally made to record when I'd given my kids different medicine, but has now expanded to an event scheduler, meal planner, and checklists.
High Output Management by Andrew Gove
The Goal by Eli Goldratt.
I got a couple of pocket operators, about $175 in total. Opened up a whole world of electronic music for me. Serious gateway drug. I'm composing again after decades of dry spell.
Which ones? I got a PO12, PO20, and PO33. They're great!