I agree that having a way to guide an user to first steps will be a good addition.
There is a topic about Blank state improvements but it dot not lead to any feature.
On the other hand, we have the setup wizard which ask the user to perform some operations to configure the database. The problem with such options is that it only ask for required configurations (create a company, a chart of accounts) and I do not think is right to create a wizard promting to create new parties.
Did you hae any idea on how to setup such starting to-do list?