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For the last year I've been developing an extension to the Fixed Asset functions in Compiere.
Features of the fixed asset extension include:
Seamless integration with Compiere's:
-Partner Relations functions - to retrieve name and addresses for tax authorities, financiers, insurers,
-Accounts Payable functions – to automatically create fixed assets on payment of invoice
-General Ledger functions – post depreciation and other fixed asset transactions to the general ledger
Ability to compute and maintain multiple sets of depreciation expense per asset for GAAP, tax and budgeting purposes .
Multiple depreciation methods allowing users to depreciate assets in a variety of ways including user defined values. In addition a user can select specific depreciation rules, conventions, and depreciation spreads to meet their specific needs.
Manage and maintain assets by asset groups to set default characteristics, such as depreciation settings, balance sheet and income statement accounts, automatically when creating assets or perform mass changes to many assets at the same time. Note group settings can be overridden when necessary for a given asset
Perform various transactions on assets including asset splits, transfers and disposals and record the activity to the GL.
Perform asset revaluations and create the resulting GL entry.
Establish parent and component relationships for complex assets reporting
Ability to track assets by standard or user defined fields.
Ability to forecast depreciation expenses.
Review on-line history for a given asset.
Record an asset's financial, insurance, license, and tax information for an asset. In addition alerts can be set to warn users of an approaching dates that require action for example contract and license renewal dates or property tax due dates.
Import assets from a spreadsheet.
I'm in the stages of completing user documentation and unit testing as well as finalizing a package containing the new code, tables and data to distribute the extension to users.
I would like to start limited testing with the Compiere Community at the end of January but not sure how to go about it. Do you have any suggestions on how I can recruit users to participate in limited testing? Is there any infrastructure in place to facilitate this process?
Your thoughts are GREATLY appreciated!
Rob.