Dear accounting experts, could you please shed some light upon this
issue?

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pro-forma invoices: documentation doesn't match implementation
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Bug description:
I'm not an international accountant, but it seems the term "pro-forma invoice" 
is ambiguous and can describe 2 kind of invoices, and unfortunately there is an 
ambiguity about what pro-forma invoices are supposed to be in OpenERP: with or 
without accounting moves attached.

The manual reads "A Pro Forma invoice doesn’t yet have an invoice number, but 
the accounting entries on the invoice that’s created correspond to the amounts 
that Open ERP will record as the customer’s payables": 
http://doc.openerp.com/book/3/3_7/accounting_workflow.html#open-or-pro-forma-invoices
This is one way of managing pro-forma invoices: an invoice without a number, 
with accounting entries. It seems to be a disputable practice, and it's 
forbidden here in France, but in some places people seem to understand 
"pro-forma invoices" this way however.

But in the implementation of v5.0, pro-forma invoices really are invoices 
without a number and without accounting entries. French people (among others) 
understand "pro-forma invoices" this way.

So, either the doc is wrong or the implementation is wrong - but it has to be 
settled and fixed.
Lionel.



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