Re: [CK-Ledger-users] Re: I would like to help

[C K Wu <ck...@ch...>]

Hello, Robert,

Welcome on board.  Please go ahead and develop the Rental module.

At the same time, you may like to take note of the following,

a)    Please develop the rental facility as a separate module,
b)    The 'accno' field can certainly be changed to a text field.
        However, the validation (in class.account.inc.php) to ensure
        'accno' is numeric will have to be changed.  Please inform
        me the change that you have made, so I can synchronize your
        version with mine.  Substantial testing will have to be made
        to ensure that the new 'accno' field is useable by other modules.
c)    If at all possible, could you generalise your chart of account, so
        it may serve as a sample chart for government organizations
        or public agencies.  I'll lodge it with the main ck-ledger code
        as one of the sample charts.
d)    Please ensure that your software and data setup does not
        reveal the identity of the agency you are employed with.
e)    Please ensure that you can assign copyright of your finished
        work to the public under GPL.  [AFAIK, some employment
        contract allows the employer to own the total intellectual
        property right of an employee's work].
f)    When developing the Rental module, you may like to make
        provision for turnover rent, rent free period and other
        non-recurring charges, like air-conditioning, off-hour lighting
        etc.  These would be useful for rentals over a commercial
        office/arcade complex.
g)    The collection of private household information is a rather
        touchy issue.  You may like to include them as optional items,
        or inside a separate module.  In Hong Kong, we have very
        strict privacy law and the Privacy Commission is always
        breathing over the neck of data collectors.  I'll be the first to
        admit that ck-ledger does not have sufficient safeguard
        against unauthorised read access.

Happy Coding,
CK

robert del huerto wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 May 2002 05:10 am, C K Wu wrote:
> > a)    Develop a sample chart of account for your country of residence.
>
> I work for a public agency that receives funds from several different sources
> with the primary source being the government.  So, other than having a chart
> of accounts that's slightly different than the default, we need to keep track
> of different fund sources.  Additionally, we need to keep track of different
> projects within each fund group.  In other words, we need account numbers
> that look like:
>
> 10-2302-100001  Checking Account
>
> ...this being the checking account for fund 10 project 2302.
>
> Currently, I see the account number stored as an int(11) field.  Would it be a
> bad idea to change that to a text string?  The whole account no
> "10-2302-100001" could be stored in the field.  Or, two other fields could be
> added for fund and project data.  What do you think?
>
> > 5.    For Rental/FM, a demo system (www.fm-sytem.no/demo/) had already
> >         been developed atop phpgroupware.  You may like to check it,
> > although
> >         the system is geared mainly towards FM.
> >
>
> It does appear to be mostly an FM app.
>
> Here's what my agency needs in terms of a rental app that's similar to the
> needs of a commercial housing complex:
>
> - Track tenant account receivable balances
>      (charge fees and receive payments)
> - Run a monthly batch rent run
>      (charges all rents for the month)
> - Provide tenant move-in and move-out processing
> - Track unit turn-around rates
>      (how long is a unit vacant and why)
> - Provide for tenant and unit inspection generated work orders
> - Provide time-billing for work orders
> - Provide an interface to the inventory and purchase order apps
> - Provide a waiting list for applicants waiting for a unit
> - etc.
>
> In addition, we would need a wealth of information about tenants including
> their household composition, income sources, assets, medical expenses, etc.
> in order to calculate the amount of public assistance for which they qualify.
> This information would, of course, not be needed by commercial rental
> companies.
>
> What if I get started on the rental and tenant processing side and later we
> can decide whether to use www.fm-sytem.no's software or develop our own?
>
> robert
>
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