On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Raja Iskandar Shah <[email protected]
> wrote:
> matthew, would things like these be helpful for you to understand the
> chart of accounts ?
Yes, a "basic accounting" chapter would be quite helpful, and your outline
seems like a good one. I also think that a section with examples, as you
suggest, would be very helpful.
I have one idea about this section: I think, since this book is intended to
be for LSMB users in particular, it would be helpful to integrate a
"quickstart" guide throughout these examples. I would like to see a set of
examples of common business transactions, with three parts to each example:
what happens in reality (e.g. Example, Inc. buys some parts from a
supplier); what happens in "accounting logic" (credit bank account, debit
inventory account); and finally a walkthrough of how a typical LSMB
workflow for this transaction would go.
It might be that a brand-new user with a brand-new LSMB installation
wouldn't be able to reproduce all of these examples without some initial
work (setting up bank accounts and vendors, etc.), but I still think that
it would help illuminate the accounting principles to have concrete
examples, and it would start the reader getting familiar with LSMB. Once a
newbie has gone on & set up a company database & started working, the
examples could serve as a useful template for common transactions they'll
have to deal with.
yrs
matt
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