On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Chris Travers wrote: > This is particularly aimed at the consultants, developers, and so > forth in the community, as well as the more advanced users of the > software. > > Once 1.3 is out the door, one of the add-ons I am thinking of writing > is a budgetting/variance accounting module for projects, departments, > etc. I might also write a petty cash request variance module. The > basic idea I am looking at are: > > 1) Nested departments, with the whole organization being Department 0.
I think nested departments should be standard, apart from anything else. Armaghan has done some work on that i believe--you might be able to absorb it. Nested projects too, probably, although I don't have an immediate application for those. > 2) Budgets over arbitrary periods > 3) Variance report (basically an income statement compared to the budget) > > Eventually this could be expanded to include storing things like > inventory forecasts (manually calculated) and comparing against > inventory activity. So for example sales of products at exhibitions > or fairs could be compared against forecasts. > > Another possibility would be nested projects as well as variance > accounting in the production of assemblies. > > I am not sure all of this would get done for 1.4, but the questions I have > are: > 1) Which areas are most important to current community members? 1 & 2. I have non profit potential clients, who would find it very useful to have budgeting. Specifically, they need to track the difference between what a ministry (department) has spent during the year, and what they are authorized to spend for that year. I could send you privately some of the kind of reports they like to generate from Quickbooks. > 3) How important do you find these features to be? More than file attachments, and you know how much I want those. It's not that it would be so useful to me in particular (as file attachments definitely are), but in "selling" the software, I think it is quite important in general, and to have a base for further work. Regards, Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
