There is a sort of standard now (XBRL) I have viewed some of it today and it defines in XML how to create a trail balance so anny other program thar read XBRL can import it.
Met vriendelijke groet, Pieter Valentijn Delphidreams http://www.delphidreams.nl -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Dean Zobec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zaterdag 2 december 2006 22:33 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [lazarus] Gambas Graeme Geldenhuys pravi: > On 12/2/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If it's about osFinancials (the former TurboCash): >> >> I think it should be very possible to port it to lazarus. But as >> usual, time is probably the issue. > > I don't like TurboCash at all, and wasn't going to use that. I'm not a > fan of web based products either! I want to start from scratch. > Completely based on OOP for a start and unit tested from every > possible angle. I worked at a company in the UK and helped develop a > very complex accounting system. Unfortunately it was a nightmare to > maintain and it had code inside forms, used global variable and tide > specific to MS SQL Server. Not the route I want to follow, though > would like to use some of their ideas and other ideas from BS/1 > Accounting. > > It happens that I have a strong background in accounting, should you need help. A couple of years ago I was responsible for the accounting of a middle sized firm (something about 10000 transactions a day) and for the cost management. There was a lot of transactions in foreign currencies so I gained a lot of experience in that field. The problem I see with an accounting program is the fact that at lower level it has to couple with different laws and forms of taxation, so the greatest work is to build a flexible system that can be easily adopted to the single nation's legislation. I was investigating about innovative ways of handling the business transactions and double entry bookkeeping to discover new ways of doing old stuff and be more efficient (we have computers now, it's stupid to do the same thing that Luca Pacioli did in Medieval times). Very interesting field, but at the end you have to couple with the problems and details of the local legislation, and that really put me off (hope the EU will do more standardisation in the future). You are right however, oop is the way to go and build a strong framework of business classes, combined with an OPF and a good solution to link the business classes to the UI. I've seen a lot of bad code written in Delphi, no tests and validations that were mixed directly with the UI code, completely unmaintainable. Ciao, Dean _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
