On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 21:24 -0800, Chris Travers wrote: <snip>
> I do a similar thing FWIW. > > > > I suspect this usage is "wrong" and I think I have more recently just > > left the description as "miscellaneous item" and added "binder" or > > "stationary" or whatever in the item notes, but since the time I > > started using SQL-Ledger the field was editable, so it "made sense" to > > edit it. > > I am not sure. I would suggest slight refinements to your approach > rather than overhauling it. > > The big thing is that your approach works fine as long as everything > is set up as a service. If you set it up as a part, I think FIFO > considerations might bite you if you are also trying to do project > accounting. I.e. you could end up with the wrong purchase price being > associated with an invoice. Probably not a big deal for an accounting > period sinc ethe other invoice would be unlikely to go across periods, > but if it could skew project balance sheets. > > If you set it up as a service, and it is a quick turn-around item, > then you can just attach it to the project. > > However, if this is something like a binder used for a report, you > probably should be tracking it as petty office supplies instead of > parts. The simplest way to do this is to use the AP Transaction > screen and enter directly as an expense and then provide adjustments > at the end of accounting periods if this is significant. > > Hope this helps, > Chris Travers The ability to alter the description is quite important here - for some reason that I wouldn't like to speculate on customers often require the description to be vague, such as "Lorry Parts" ;-) Apart from my original need to go to a Part record from an Invoice/Quote (and for that matter the Goods Inward (Shipping->Receive) form), it would be good if a change to the part number refreshed the whole line as it's all too easy invoice for the wrong part at the moment. Cheers Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
