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I had a girlfriend in collage whose father owned a small general store in a small town. His entire staff of 'help' consisted of two high school boys who mopped and swept. He had the same problems with in store categories and determining if a section or product line was profitable that the supermarket example has. In another response here I listed my 'big system' biases along with other credentials; no reason to repeat them here. But I do disagree on the need to massively modify a system to be usable. We are not talking about support ADB for a bank or even 52/53 week years or 13-period accounting here. Just the ability to configure accounting organizational breakdowns. I have installed systpes repeatedly during my career without modification - any modification. There have been many more with low levels of mods not affecting the issues here. Even a small widget factory will need to know the cost of operating an HR Department separate from the Shipping Department or the Parts Assembly Department. In a total of 39 years in business, I've only seen three basic models in automated General Ledgers;
- No org breakdown (this model, Quickbooks)
- Org breakdown with summary reporting at report time (M&D, MSA, D&B, Lawson, Global, Platinum, Oracle, PeopleSoft)
- Org breakdown with summary reporting at data entry time (Software International, also known as GE and CA Universe).

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