[Openledger-developer] Open Business Accounting (OBA) compare to Sql-ledger

[atchek <at...@ew...>]

To All,
  i had been working on OBA to produce a business software which is best towards small to medium 
organisation and more concern on accounting and inventory section.  i listed all the features in OBA 
compare to SL for your reference. So i hope we can combine the everything together which can adapt 
SL and OBA. 


New Modules
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* Membership support
* Quick Entry 
	- Alternative to Add General Ledger for quicker data entry
* Invoice/Order Listing 
	- A report to show who buy/sell what.
* Stock Value Report 
	- A summary report to re-sum all balance in,out,adjust and compare with the
		figure saved in the inventory in ic table in the database
* Sales/Purchase Summary for customer
	- shows how much customer/vendor buy/sell from you
* Sales/Purchase Summary for inventory
	- shows how much item had been bought/sold
* Debit/Credit note
* stock adjustment
	- A new module to record any adjustment has to made to the balance quantity
	of an item
* yearly aging
* GL summary
	- A report to summary all GL transaction which group by transaction type or project


Enhancement
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* Order Entry
    * A new standard template is created which can be modified to become all sort of order 
      entry such as Purchase Order, Sales Order , Quotation, Purchase Requiesition, RFQ
      through the modification on the menu.ini
    * new field
    	* added status - open, closed and KIV
    	* added transcation type - to differentiate all orders
    
    	
 
* Invoice
	* Cash Sales - able to add payment automatically
	* new field
	  * sales person
	  * membership
	  * Added transaction type for accounting purpose
	  * sub no - sub contractor
	  * projects
	* OBA now support tax on total and tax on item
	* new invoice printing 
		* print title and heading on all pages
		* balance bring forward on next page
			  
* IO.pl
	* new field
		* Order Number - used for calculate order balance for large order quantity
		* Tax - Tax on item
		
* General Ledger
	  * Added transaction type for accounting purpose
	  * sub no - sub contractor
	  * projects

* Inventory
	* Added Combo as new Inventory type - best for manufacturing to group similar items
	* History report - able to figure opening balance with the given 'from' date
	* Quantity Balance - shows quantity balance and purchase cost
	
* chart of account
	* added new account type - debtor, creditor ,cogs, profit and loss, appropriation, fixed asset
	
* customer/vendor
	* treat all customer/vendor as debtor/creditor accordingly
	* new COA will be added if new customer/vendor is added
	* new field
		* group - code to group customer/vendor which also allow invoice to show specific
		  group of customer/vendor through menu.ini
		* location code

* Receipt/Payment
	* able to save as a record
	* comes with it own running receipt/payment number
		
* Trial Balance
	* 3 types of Trial Balance added
	
* balance sheet
	* able to show fixed asset and depreciation properly
	
Others
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* OBA comes with simple and advance searching for beginner and expert user
* enhance on report engine 
	* new report printing support
		* print title and heading on all pages
		* balance bring forward on next page
		* sub heading displayed if subtotal is ticked
* users now can modify menu.ini to customise the report without touching the
  actual coding


For more information, please refer to http://oba.sourceforge.net and visit the demo
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