Hi Matthew,
Thanks for your feedback!
I was glad to hear about this project, [ ... ]
To answer Erik's questions, I did find chapters 5 and 6 to be just about
> what I needed for getting things up and running. (I installed LedgerSMB on
> Ubuntu 12.04 following the tutorial at ledgersmb.org, which was extremely
> helpful.) I like the style of giving a quick explanation of a "standard"
> setup with references to later in the book for details.
>
Ok. After some discussion with Chris, we found that the section on
"checking the chart of accounts" required a bit of an extension: a number
of accounts have to exist for LedgerSMB to work correctly and since the
US/General.sql chart doesn't contain them all, we thought it's a good idea
to document these minimal requirements in the "Getting started" section.
You may want to check that section again to see if your chart is
appropriately set up.
> I would like to see more information on setting up the charts of
> accounts. Would it be possible to give a list in the book of what each
> predefined chart of accounts looks like? I guess I could set up dummy
> businesses with each to find out, but it would be nice to get a preview to
> help me decide which to use.
For some we can, yes. I'm thinking we could write a summary for each chart
- listing them takes up a lot of space possibly without much benefit.
However my Chinese is a bit too weak to write a summary for the chinese
charts. The same applies to some of the others. I'll solicit feedback from
this list to create the summary listing.
> I see that the section on the create-company-database.sh script is yet to
> be written - I haven't used this because the predefined charts seemed easy
> & basically what I needed but I look forward to learning more about the
> advantages of using this script.
>
The script isn't much more than a shell script version of setup.pl; it
existed before setup.pl and can be used to automate company setup from
other shell scripts for example in a hosted environment.
> Thanks for the work on this book. I hope I can make some useful
> contribution to the project as it goes along - I know I'll be following it.
Welcome. Please note that you don't have to write contributions to
contribute to the book project: reading it like you have and giving
feedback on things which may not be clear to the non-financial reader is at
least as helpful.
Thanks again for your reaction.
Bye,
Erik.
>
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