I have actual accounting experience so by your first point I am qualified to comment. I doubt CLI snobbery is a factor; that would be infantile. I suspect oth

I have actual accounting experience so by your first point I am qualified to comment. I doubt CLI snobbery is a factor; that would be infantile. I suspect others downvoted you for taking the default position that the status quo is the best prospect - hardly a hacker's point of view and certainly not in keeping with the startup community. Had Rod Drury agreed with you, he might never have started Xero. My finding is that once one is trained in the basics of double-entry book-keeping, accounting standards, finance and taxation, then any package that keeps appropriate records and generates the right reports will do. To which end, Ledger seems a perfectly reasonable choice for a micro business or self-bootstrapped lean startup. Comparing it to an ERP platform is a non sequitur. A better discussion might be around the transition triggers. Moreover, Ledger could serve as the accounting module of a larger system that benefits from double-entry book-keeping, such as a trading platform or two-sided network business. I say that with confidence because I'm building one. By the way, a little historical research: double-entry was invented in the fifteenth century; hardly the dawn of time.