Re: Discussion item post-1.3: Variance Accounting

[ario <..hidden..>]

On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 16:44 -0400, Luke wrote:
> 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.

I do! :)

ario

> 
> > 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
> 
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