led to [Sourceforge page](http://sourceforge.net/p/frontaccounting/mercurial/ci/default/tree/)

## Technical

- PHP

- MySQL

- GPLv3 or later

## Preliminary evaluation

### Positive

- [Most recent release 2013-09-05](http://frontaccounting.com/wb3/pages/posts/release-2.3.18193.php)

- Themable

- Seemingly easy to deploy (Looking at their source release, structure looks similar to wordpress, for good or worse)

### Negative

- It seems to be built from scratch and not leverage any frameworks.

- Seems like a messy codebase: Table-based design. No templating, HTML is `echo`-ed to stdout.

- Uses the [deprecated](http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php) PHP `mysql_*` functions.

## Detailed Evaluation

- [[Trial Balance Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#trial-balance]]: Yes

- [[Bank Reconciliation Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#bank-reconcilation]]: Yes, seems ok

- [[Chart of Accounts|UseCases/GeneratingReports#chart-of-accounts]]: Yes

- [[Cash Disbursements Journal|UseCases/GeneratingReports#cash-disbursements]]: Yes, looks like GL Account Transactions works for this

- [[Income Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#income-report]]: Not obviously

  there, but should be easy given the number of reports available.

- [[Expense Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#expense-report]]: Not obviously

  there, but should be easy given the number of reports available.

It seems FrontAccounting's "Dimension" feature likely can do all of these,

since it seems you can limit any of the above reports by "Dimension".

## Evaluation of [[Fund Accounting|UseCases/FundAccounting]] UseCases

- [[Fund-only View|UseCases/FundAccounting#fund-view]]: No, seems to be no way to

restrict a user to a specific Dimension.

- [[Funds as part of whole org View|UseCases/FundAccounting#fundless-view]]:

  Yes, dimensions appear to be purely informative.

- [[Ignore Funds for operations|UseCases/FundAccounting#fundless-view]]:

  Yes, dimensions appear to be purely informative.

# Evaluation of [[Double-entry Accounting|UseCases/DoubleEntryAccounting]] UseCases

- Does the system implement pure double-entry accounting?  Yes, it appears to

  do so.

# Evaluation of [[TrackingDocumentation|UseCases/TrackingDocumentation]] UseCases

- Does the system

  [[link up to external documentation|UseCases/TrackingDocumentation#document-link-up]]?

  Not that I can find.  It doesn't seem to allow addition links to external documents.