Here is and update from couple of years ago. previously there was discussion about the frame work of this. if I did all these out, is there a place on the documentation site we can put them to save a lot of re discussion.
David E. Jones sent the following on 9/23/2005 4:16 PM: > > Update: Accounting/GL Now in Beta Testing > > The Open For Business Accounting and General Ledger (GL) application is > now moving into beta testing. Currently, it can support the accounting > needs of most product-retail businesses that use Open For Business, > including: > > * Support for multiple organizations and multiple currencies > * Setting up chart of accounts with unlimited depth > * General Ledger posting for most key business processes > * Financial reports including trial balance, income statements, and > balance sheets > * Screens to create and manage both Accounts Receivable (AR) and > Accounts Payable (AP) invoices and payments > * Screens for managing tax liabilities across multiple jurisdictions > * Administrative features such as periodic closings > * Flexible entry and maintenance of payments and invoice (including > application payments to invoices, etc) > * Export to outside accounting applications (QBXML for QuickBooks is > included) > > This application is fully integrated with the rest of OFBiz, including > ecommerce, Point Of Sales, order manager, and facilities manager. It > drops into your hot-deploy/ directory and runs right away. If you need > other accounting-related features, such as payroll, it is fairly easy > to develop a plug in for it. > > If you would like to learn more about the GL application, there is a > video from the St. Louis Users' Conference > (http://www.ofbiz.org/VideosConf.html) and an online demo > (http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/demos.php). > > How to Make it Open Source > > The Accounting and General Ledger is developed under a community funding > model. The idea is to get community funding to help cover the cost of > developing a large, complex application. We think this is a very fair > user-driven model because it can produce open source software with > either a large number of small contributors or a small number of larger > contributors. As an added incentive, those who contribute over $3,000 > can begin to use the application immediately and benefit from all its > features for a fraction of the cost of in-house development. > > We've currently received sponsorship for about half the development > costs ($26,000 out of about $50,000) and require another $24,000 to > reach our goal and release it under an open source license. This means > that we can get there with just eight user-contributors with $3,000 each > or, alternatively, a hundred contributors of under $250 each. > > -Si Chen > -David E. Jones > > P.S. Special thanks to all who have contributed labor and funds to this > effort, including: Open Source Strategies, Undersun Consulting, Ant > Websystems, Masterfile Corp, and others. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
