Re: ENTITIES ON GL TRANSACTIONS

[David Mora <..hidden..>]

>>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.