On Friday 23 April 2010 09:45:42 Borja López Soilán (Pexego) wrote: > Chris Halls escribió: > > Here's another idea: allow creation of draft opening/closing year entries > > without being forced to actually close the year. And on doing the final > > close, replace the draft entries with a final version. > > This is just what we are doing on the Spanish localization. We created a > new "fiscal year closing" wizard (l10n_ES_cierre_ejercicio) that creates > P&L and closing entries (that set the accounts balance to 0), and then > opening entries which 'restore' the balance [so you only have to look at > the current year to know the current balance]. The entries are created > on draft state until the user confirms the closing of the year. > > The wizard also lets the user recompute the entries anytime: it takes > care of deleting the old entries (also unreconciles them), reopening > (unlocking) the fiscal year and periods, creating the new entries and > locking again the periods and year.
I actually can see a use for both approaches: Ferdinand's method is good when you start the next fiscal year and have not yet had all of the paperwork to create the entries for the previous year. It means you can still see up to date balances even while the accounts are not yet complete. When you are then close to finishing all the entries for the fiscal year but are not yet completely ready.. say, you want to be able to generate and see the year end movements but possibly make some journal entries for accounting adjustments based on the draft year end balances, and then redo the year end moves. So my suggestion would be to allow both methods to be used, and for them to be able to coexist such that Ferdinand's changes could be only seen if there were no draft year end entries. Chris Disclaimer: I haven't yet read the code of those changes to see if it's possible :) -- credativ ltd Open Source for business 36 Regent Street Tel +44 1788 298150 Rugby Email [email protected] CV21 2PS www.credativ.co.uk credativ limited is registered in England & Wales, company no. 5261743 registered office: Suite 2 Bloxam Court, Corporation Street, Rugby CV21 2DU _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-accounting Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-accounting More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
