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Grant Edwards-2

Accounting documentation

Hi

I am looking for a non technical guide to the OFBiz accounting component.
Something that I can give to an accountant that explains what the OFBiz
account component can do and more or less how to go about setting it up.

Regards

Grant Edwards

Vikrant.Rathore

RE: Accounting documentation

Dear Grant,

The financial management in ofbiz is work in progress you would not get a complete documentation on it.

If you are looking for something already done then its better u look at ofbiz based product like http://www.opentaps.org or http://www.neogia.org/

Both have some financial management system although not sophisticated but ok for general accounting.

Regards,
Vikrant

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Edwards [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:35 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Accounting documentation

Hi

I am looking for a non technical guide to the OFBiz accounting component.
Something that I can give to an accountant that explains what the OFBiz
account component can do and more or less how to go about setting it up.

Regards

Grant Edwards

Grant Edwards-2

Re: Accounting documentation

Hi Vikrant

While I accept that the financial management in OFBiz is work in progress,
and probably will be so for some time, can I safely assume that in terms of
general accounting its fairly stable. In other words could I run my order
process, settle with suppliers, invoice customers etc ... ?

In terms of documentation for accounts what do you think of
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/~ian@.../Accounting+Manager

Thank you

Grant Edwards

On Jan 21, 2008 10:23 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear Grant,
>
> The financial management in ofbiz is work in progress you would not get a
> complete documentation on it.
>
> If you are looking for something already done then its better u look at
> ofbiz based product like http://www.opentaps.org or http://www.neogia.org/
>
> Both have some financial management system although not sophisticated but
> ok for general accounting.
>
> Regards,
> Vikrant
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Edwards [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:35 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Accounting documentation
>
> Hi
>
> I am looking for a non technical guide to the OFBiz accounting component.
> Something that I can give to an accountant that explains what the OFBiz
> account component can do and more or less how to go about setting it up.
>
> Regards
>
> Grant Edwards
>

Jacopo Cappellato

Re: Accounting documentation

In reply to this post by Vikrant.Rathore

Hi Grant,

I would strongly suggest to consider the adoption of the official OFBiz
accounting component and *not* the third party versions, especially you
plan to deploy OFBiz (and not one of its forks/variants... but in my
opinion OFBiz is the best choice).
That said, yes the financial features are still young (but
growing/maturing quickly) and right now the feature set is comparable to
the ones of the counterparts.

As regards the documentation about financial setup, yes at the moment
there is not a lot around, but if you, or anyone else, are willing to
help write down some notes (for example in the OFBiz wiki), I'm sure
that we can help to guide you in your research/tests... it is not very
difficult to perform an initial setup.
As a starting point, I'd suggest to have a look at the financial demo
settings provided for the "Company" party:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk/applications/accounting/data/DemoGlSetupData.xml

this should give you an idea of the data structure (that you can create
also by the application's user interface).

Jacopo

[hidden email] wrote:

> Dear Grant,
>
> The financial management in ofbiz is work in progress you would not get a complete documentation on it.
>
> If you are looking for something already done then its better u look at ofbiz based product like http://www.opentaps.org or http://www.neogia.org/
>
> Both have some financial management system although not sophisticated but ok for general accounting.
>
> Regards,
> Vikrant
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Edwards [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:35 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Accounting documentation
>
> Hi
>
> I am looking for a non technical guide to the OFBiz accounting component.
> Something that I can give to an accountant that explains what the OFBiz
> account component can do and more or less how to go about setting it up.
>
> Regards
>
> Grant Edwards

Vikrant.Rathore

RE: Accounting documentation

In reply to this post by Grant Edwards-2

Dear Grant,

Yes sure you can do this :).

Also you can have GL done automatically. Its just you cannot use it as a packaged financial application unless you do some development of reports and screens although services are in place :).

Regards,
Vikrant

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Edwards [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:15 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Accounting documentation

Hi Vikrant

While I accept that the financial management in OFBiz is work in progress,
and probably will be so for some time, can I safely assume that in terms of
general accounting its fairly stable. In other words could I run my order
process, settle with suppliers, invoice customers etc ... ?

In terms of documentation for accounts what do you think of
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/~ian@.../Accounting+Manager

Thank you

Grant Edwards

On Jan 21, 2008 10:23 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote: