On 4/27/07, Gerald Chudyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/27/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed W writes: > > > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders, > > > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object. > > > > Invoices are accounting transactions. Sales orders and quotes are not. > > -- > There may be exceptions to this. There are some businesses who treat > signed sales orders as binding as purchase orders. At least, they > report them as business items to management and shareholders. I am not > trying to draw exact parallels between purchase orders and sales > orders, but work flow security and auditing issues should be dealt > with in both the above cases.
Sales orders and invoices are both potentially legal documents. Invoices are financial transactions while orders are not. Again, information-wise they can still be part of the same physical layout, but the order will not have the financial component. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
