Localisation

The initial code for this project is donated in English - British localisation

Internationalisation of the project is an open ToDo - contributions invited please!

Various accounting terms are British English rather than the American English often found in other accounts software

• Localisation == Localization (!!)
• Nominal Ledger == General Ledger
• Purchase Ledger == Accounts Payable
• etc.

Sales Tax

In the UK, sales tax is "Value Added Tax" - VAT - and this is hard coded into the Zoom Accounts project.
The LKVATReturn component has a table of "VAT Codes" which can be entered by the user for the different rates of sales tax. (see the User Wiki). For each tax period it extracts separate lists for each of the different VAT rates of the cash, sales and purchase transactions. From these reports the amounts to be paid over to the tax authorities can be computed.
"Cash accounting" can be achieved (if required) by entering Sales/Purchase invoices net of tax and then accounting for sales tax on payments and receipts transactions.
This treatment should be sufficiently generic to work for most countries sales tax systems however Developers wishing to internationalise sales tax are invited to submit $IFDEF type patches to make any adjustments necessary to the way it works.