Requirement Specifications
Aus EA-Geier
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If you have some requirements of your own for the ea-Geier Project (remember online accounting on a cash bases - Einnahmen-Ausgaben-Rechnung) please let us know. Either by using the open discussion forum at SourceForge, or the tracker for feature requests at SourceForge.
Accounting on a cash bases is a legal requirement for Austrian companies up to a certain turn over. It is a simplified form of bookkeeping, which is limited to recording cash flows. Most small companies use simple spread sheets or commercial software. While spread sheets are practically for free, they lack of certain features like backups, online accessibility, or security.
The ea-Geier intends to be a free open source tool to provide secure online accounting on a cash bases.
It addresses accountants of small companies. Which might be the head of a company handling the accounting of her or his one-person enterprise, or a professional accountant using the ea-Geier to manage her or his SME clients. Their technical skill may vary from basic internet browsing to advanced computer knowledge.
To meet this purpose, we define three types of requirements:
- The Project Constraints are restrictions to shape the basic design and define the environment of the ea-Geier project.
- The Functional Requirements describe the actual functions of the ea-Geier to handle accounting on a cash bases.
- The Nonfunctional Requirements define properties that the functions must have but do not influence the basic functionality.
The Functional Requirements deal with the overall functions not specific to accounting on cash bases and interface-specific functions:
- The Cash-Book Requirements describe the functionality of the main accounting feature of the ea-Geier - the cash book.
- The Assets-Book Requirements describe the functionality to calculate the depreciation for wear and tear of the assets of a company.
- The Purchase-Book Requirements describe the functionality to store and manage records about the purchased goods of a company intended for resale.
- The Traveling-Expenses Requirements describe the functionality to store and manage traveling expenses.
- The Accounting-Balance Requirements describe the functionality to generate a balance report from the data of the four books.
