Any advice for our multilingual chart of accounts?

We just upgraded the code LearnDoubleEntry.org is based on, in order to show to non-authenticated users the chart of accounts of system-provided firms.

You can have a look at the chart of accounts of our "Standard Firm" at the URL http://learndoubleentry.org/firms/standard-en/coa. Please note that some of the names of the accounts have to be checked, and we would love it if you can send advice and comments on how to improve it.

The names are currently expressed in US English and Italian. Of course, other languages can be added. Also, we are not sure about the differences between American English and British English, or other flavo(u)rs of English, for what concerns the names.

Legenda
Position: BS (Balance Sheet) or IS (Income Statement)
Outstanding Balance: Dr. (Debit), Cr. (Credit), or "/" (unset) -- this is the "typical" outstanding balance that one could expect for an account (e.g., Debit for Cash, Credit for Sales, etc.), and it is used to show some warnings in case of doubtful journal entries...

Multilingual chart of accounts

DELT version 1.0.7 is out, with a little enhancement in language management. It is now possible to choose which language(s) one wants to use for the names of accounts. In the "Edit" form of the firm, you now have the possibility to select the languages that you want to write the names of the accounts in.

If you have a multilingual chart of accounts, you can choose a different language anytime you want. When you edit an account, you must choose a name for the different languages.

Other languages can be easily added, so just leave a comment here or send a message if you want your one added on LearnDoubleEntry.org website.

Internationalized names of accounts

Just noticed that the interface for giving names to the accounts is was not clear enough. We will work on that, and fix the problem.

An account may have names in different languages, but you must write the names just after the appropriate locale string, like in the following example:

en_US: Depreciation of Buildings
it_IT: Ammortamento fabbricati

You shouldn't remove the locale, but, of course, you are not enforced to write the names in all the languages.

What does it happen if the firm's language is set to, say, English, and there's no name in English for an account? Well, another language is chosen, but an asterisk is added.

What if no name is provided? Well, only the asterisk comes up, like here:

Please be patient, a fix is coming soon...

The bug has been fixed in version 1.0.5. Now the names are correctly checked on saving.