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thedqs wrote:It could also be to get more coverage. I just read the forms and not many of the blogs so I get to read his blog when he posts it here.
True. I read the forums much more than anything else on the site.
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bhofmann wrote:Quick question for Tom. Why are you posting your blogs in two places? You seem to get better responses in the forum so I figured you might be testing the various methods. I was just curious.
For more coverage. Some people will read it only on the home page. Others will pick it up in the forums. Originally I only was going to post on the home page but it does not have a good discussion section. So then I thought about only posting in the forums but then only forum attendees read it.

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brado426 wrote:Many times there is added cost and time when trying to meet every user request. In my company, we usually try to negotiate for a realistic, cost-effective solution. Some of our users would have us developing for years and redesigning every single one of our other systems to meet all of their requirements. :) I understand the point you're trying to make, Tom. I just think there are many occasions where the user does need to be told how it is going to work in the spirit of saving time and money.
These are general guidelines...certainly not absolutes. Sometimes it is necessary to explain how complex software works.

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tomw wrote:Interesting idea. I'll pass it along to the MLS guys. If they were to do it, there would need to be work done to disable certain features (such as transmitting information to the Church).

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Though I am not an accountant (I've had a lot of exposure to the task) I'd recommend you have some accountants look it over as well. Much of the financial section feels like it was done from the viewpoint of a programmer instead of an accountant. I know one thing I've found frustrating is the ability of reconciled months to change under certain circumstances. When I reconcile something, I like for it to stay reconciled.
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gblack wrote:Though I am not an accountant (I've had a lot of exposure to the task) I'd recommend you have some accountants look it over as well. Much of the financial section feels like it was done from the viewpoint of a programmer instead of an accountant. I know one thing I've found frustrating is the ability of reconciled months to change under certain circumstances. When I reconcile something, I like for it to stay reconciled.
I'll second that. I was stake finance clerk when MLS took over. With MLS, we lost a LOT of capabilities relative to the finance database arrangement we had been using, and we were using a pretty primitive platform (Borland's Reflex version 2). We used FIS for processing deposits but not for anything else.

A big part of the root cause of MLS causing reconciliations to go bad with time is the use of a simple boolean for whether a check has cleared. For stability in reconciliations, you don't want to know just _whether_ a check has cleared, you want to know _when_ it cleared, at least on which statement. Check clearing should be a YYYY.MM field, not just a boolean. Then, you reconcile based on what had cleared _then_, and the reconciliation stays stable.
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