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double entry book keeping can be used to track any resource of any size, though it's particularly good at tracking money of any size. The upside of a "real dat
by zie 2y ago
double entry book keeping can be used to track any resource of any size, though it's particularly good at tracking money of any size.
The upside of a "real database" like postgres is when you need multiple people in the books making changes at the same time. Until your accounting department grows into multiple people, Beancount, hledger or any plain text accounting system would be fine.
- simonmic 2y agoIf those multiple people are updating the files via VCS, or via UIs that enforce append-only updates, it's still reasonably fine.
- zie 2y agoTotally agreed, you can push the envelope pretty far if you are careful and knowledgeable. It just gets a lot easier and less error prone if you use a DB like PostgreSQL though.