>>For those on the list not very familiar with trunk (1.3) entities, would >>you list some examples of entities which might be linked with certain >>kinds of GL transactions?
Hi Jeff, What many accountants are asking for doesn't really depends on the entities development, we built this support some time ago for our customized version of sql-ledger running the old vendor, customer, employee system i really like the entities approach since it is cleaner and i think it will help us a lot with situations when a customer is also a vendor or an employee, among other things, but this is another topic. Ok, now why we need to link acc_trans on gl transactions to a third party is because it enables the accountant to control things like taxes, depreciation, payrolls, etc. from a gl. I want to give you an example, Payrolls is something that isn't supported yet on lsmb, and it is a little complex (at least in our country where regulatory laws make us move a lot of accounts each time we pay our employees), we can make this movements as usual using GLs, but as it is we lose the control of which employee was paid, this happens in the case of commissions per sale as well (if your accountant handle this with gl transactions), depreciation must go from assets to expense each month and you would want to track the vendor you are depreciating your asset (in order to lower your declaration taxes) with. These are just some examples i can come with at 04:14 a.m, if this is approved i can code it (as i said it is really simple just some changes on the UI and we can link against entry_id to make this as clean as possible) I'm not sure if im beeing clear enough, english doesn't comes easy on me (and it surely doesn't so early at the morning), so please excuse my english (i try to write the better i can) and if im not clear please let me know, maybe i can send you other use cases or screenshots on this. I wanted to ask for this change since i think it will be a huge improvement, but i'm not really sure of why it wasn't done before and maybe i'm missing something. Thanks a lot for your quick reply. And have a nice weekend. David. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
