"Money in...."money out"....

What are we....stupid?

This is dumbing down of the worst type. As accountants and professionals I suspect we know what a bank debits and credits are; clearly it is time for Sage to insert and honour the selection for "use accounting terms".

Personally I find this offensive in all kinds of ways.

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    LOL. So far I've received three spam responses. You'd think that membership here was vetted. Isn't this supposed to be for pros?

  • 0 in reply to donhobs

    No Don, these forums are for all end users.  The consultant's only forum no longer exists.  I don't think anyone has posted on our LI forum in years either.

    But I'm sure you will "over come and have smile"!

    Notice this is no longer a post on this thread?  The Mayor is weeding out those posts.

  • 0 in reply to Richard S. Ridings

    Ha ha -- Rick, I miss the old forum with just SAN members....much higher level of knowledge and no junk!!

    Cheers - good to "see" you again!!

  • 0 in reply to donhobs

    Just to comment on the spam issue.  We do allow any interested person to join Sage City and there is a vetting process through Captcha when registering for an account, but the spammers are getting more and more sophisticated.  Some are caught before they get posted while others (often with secret links) are removed after being posted once they are noticed by a moderator.  We try to stay on top of this, but it's a constant battle.  

    If you do happen to notice a post that you think is spam, then please mark that post as abusive.  You can do that on any post or reply by clicking on the More link under the message and then choosing the option for "Report as Abusive."

    As Richard also pointed out, Sage City is a peer-to-peer support community with oversight by Sage, with its main purpose being to allow members to ask questions and share knowledge with each other.  

    Thanks for participating and sharing your knowledge with other community members.

    Regards,

    Derek

    Global Community Manager

  • 0 in reply to Derek Vink

    Fair enough!  For sure you are not the only platform fighting the abuse. It's an annoying one!!

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    Hi 

    In case needed, here's an article on how to change between accounting and non-accounting terminology in Sage 50 CA's setup > user preferences.

    Depending on if you use accounting or non-accounting terms, these terms will be used in Sage 50:

    MODULES

    ACCOUNTING TERMS

    NON-ACCOUNTING TERMS

    Receivables

    Customers & Sales

    Payables

    Vendors & Purchases

    REPORTS

    General Ledger

    Transactions by Account

    Receivables

    Customers & Sales

    Payables

    Vendors & Purchases

    Journal Entries

    Transaction Details

    SETTINGS

    Receivables

    Customers & Sales

    Payables

    Vendors & Purchases

    USER RIGHTS

    Ledgers

    Records

    Journals

    Transactions

    Receivables

    Customers & Sales

    Payables

    Vendors & Purchases

    Warm Regards, 
    Erzsi

  • 0 in reply to Erzsi_I

    Um.

    I'm sorry, Erzsi, but I can barely respond to this without getting angry. As an accounting professional for some 40+ years, and as a user of Bedford, Simply Accounting, ACCPAC Simply Accounting, Sage Simply Accounting and now Sage Accounting do you really think I dont know this?

    That option has been available since DAY 1 in 1985. 

    This was NOT the subject of my post. The issue is using terminology "money in" and "money out" DESPITE THE FACT THAT "USE ACCOUNTING TERMS IS SET"....and the lack of a professional interface for those of us who actually understand the difference between a bank debit and an accounting debit.

    It would be fairly easy for any motivated developer at Sage to provide pros with a version that simply hides all the end-user nonsense, removes all the dumbed-down messaging, uses accounting terms EVERYWHERE and provides a cleaner slimmer "Accountant Version" that actually serves professionals properly

    One can only hope, I guess, that the uptake of the web-only version is terrible, so it drives some vague degree of actual innovation in the destop version (which is what most pros prefer and use). And please don't tell me to upvote it on some list that is constantly ignored by management because they're still trying to cram the relatively useless web version down our collective throats.

    Ugh.

  • 0 in reply to donhobs

    Hi ,

    Where in the latest version do you see this terminology "Money in and money out"?