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Hans Bakker commented on OFBIZ-5282:
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Because no demo data is loaded, this change is not showing anywhere (except in 
the invoiceoverview where a secondary line is added to the items) when the 
ledgerSegment entity is empty. We will provide demo data in the next versions. 

Please study accounting ledger segments on the internet before you involve 
yourself in this discussion because it is a rather complicated issue. It is 
however available in all larger accounting systems.

our next actions:
1. be able to enter accounting transactions with segments, which will generate 
additional balancing segment allocation automatically to keep the ledger in 
balance for a single segment.
2. Add segment selections to all accounting reports.

perhaps a last comment.
This change does not change the ledger entry transactions, it provides a way to 
(partly) assign transaction entries to segments defined by the end user. These 
additional entities are (will) be added to the view which is used in the report 
to optionally limit the report to a single segment

Regards,
Hans

                
> Introduce Accounting ledger segmentation
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-5282
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5282
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: accounting
>    Affects Versions: SVN trunk
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Hans Bakker
>            Assignee: Hans Bakker
>             Fix For: SVN trunk
>
>         Attachments: ledgersegment.patch
>
>
> We have the possibility here to be able to introduce Apache OFBiz accounting 
> in a large multi company organization. This organization is evaluating the 
> several alternatives and after evaluation of OFBiz, came up with a function 
> which OFBiz needs to have, in order to be considered.
> The user story:
> Although OFBiz accounting has the 'costcenter' function, it is not 
> fine-grained enough, we need to be able to segment the ledger to a lower 
> level that the GL accounts namely to the accounting transaction.. Further, 
> all existing reports should have the facility to be able to select a segment 
> of the ledger for either costing, profit or other purposes like special 
> projects.
> The proposed user interface.
> We need at least at the order item level the ability to specify a 
> parent-segment/segment and a percentage, if the percentange is not 100% the 
> remainder to 100% should be assigned to another segment.
> These segments can be defined and assigned by the user to the order item upon 
> entry. When the related invoice is created the segment(s) will be copied and 
> can overridden before posting when these segment names will be copied to the 
> accounting transaction.
> The proposed user reporting.
> All existing ledger reports will have the additional ability to select these 
> segments and will only incorporate accounting transactions where this segment 
> is specified.
> The proposed technical implementation.
> 1. add a new entity called LedgerSegment with fields: ledgerSegmentId, 
> parentSegmentId, description
> 2. add another 3 similar entities: OrderItemSegment, InvoiceItemSegment, 
> AcctTransSegment to make the relation to the LedgerSegment entity and to 
> specify the percentage.
> 3. Change the order, invoice, accounting transaction screens and ledger 
> report entity views to be able to use the segment names when available in the 
> LedgerSegment entity
> As i said , please let me know what you think, this is a great opportunity 
> for OFBiz accounting.
> Regards,
> Hans Bakker
> CEO AntWebsystems.com

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