Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: SQL-Modelling Costs and Invoices

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Posted by Torben Brosten on
Hi Frank,

<blockquote> ..Are you sure you want to do the accounting of your
consulting business with it?
</blockquote>

Yes, for this and other "entities."

<blockquote> they're using relatively complex accounting schemes
which is a huge overkill for service-oriented companies...
</blockquote>

There's a general coa for service companies which automatically sets up assemblies as labor only.

Yes, its complex, but really there's a spreadsheet like simplicity to how it's built, which I believe helps make it so flexible.

I know many entrepreneurs and small organizations that are adversely affected by growth. Openacs scales for computing, and could provide a way to manage growth in other ways.

The plan is to do what Malte suggests above, namely to re-build sql-ledger as openacs packages that integrate with other packages. There will need to be some changes. The openacs kernel already provides many of the administrative processes, such as permissions, internationalization, and templating. Also, SL is built for flexibility over scalability, which is apparent since SL depends on perl and DBI which is not thread safe --not okay when operations get busy!

cheers,

Torben