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In article <BzDKIx.KM9@umassd.edu>, rufus@cis.umassd.edu (Rui N. Campos) writes...

>Hello, everyone, I'm new to this group and I have a question.  I am a 4D
>developer, and I have just been contracted to do a database for a retail firm.
>This database invloves the usual things: inventory, Acounts Payable, 
>Accounts Receivable, Vendor maintenance...  I have never done any 4D work
>that required accounting.  My question is:  Is 4D suitable for general ledger,
>and payroll, among other accounting problems, or am I better off looking
>elsewhere?  
> 
>One more question.  How is 4d's performance over networks, and what is a good
>server for this?

I wrote a database in 4D for a client that did some similar things and my advice 
to you is this: don't do the accounting crap in 4D. Just buy some third party 
package (Insight from Peachtree, or Great Plains) and just export the records to 
it. Both of the aforementioned packages have pre-fab external kits that allow 
you to post records to them with a bare minimum of hassle, and they make sure 
that proper accounting procedure is followed.

I'm not an accountant. I hate accounting, and if I can help it I will never 
ever write an accounting system. There are programs out there already that do 
this, and much better than anything that I could write, and I'm happy using 
them.

Just my opinion. And no, I am not affiliated with any software companies 
mentioned in this article.

Brad Koehn
koehn@macc.wisc.edu