Dear OpenERP friends, Some of you may have seen my recent blog post : http://www.akretion.com/en/blog/2011/06/16/accounting-contribs-of-the-akretion-camptocamp-code-sprint/ you will find below more information about this news.
During the Akretion-Camptocamp code sprint that took place last week in Lausanne, in addition to work on the Magento connector, we developed 2 modules that are useful for the companies who do their accounting in OpenERP : 1) a module "account_reversal" : it adds a wizard in the menu "Journal Entries > Journal Entries" (in v5 : "Entries encoding > Entries encoding by move") that allow you to create reversal account moves in 2 clicks. This is a really basic feature that, I think, should be part of the standard account module of the addons. If someone at OpenERP S.A. wants to merge it in the addons, he would be more than welcomed ! 2) a module "account_analytic_required" : it adds an option "Policy for analytic account" on the account types that offers three choices : . Optional (default) . Always . Never For example, if you want to enforce a rule such as “I want to have an analytic account on all my expense account move lines”, set this option to "Always" on the "expense" account type. This is also a basic functionality that is often asked by the companies who use analytic accounting ; it should probably be part of the standard account modules too ; but we would dream of making it more generic to be able to enforce more elaborated rules depending on the account types. Thanks to Frederic Clementi (C2C) for helping me on the functional design and thanks to Nicolas Bessi (C2C) for helping me on the technical part. These two modules are available in the extra-6.0 branch on Launchpad. They work on OpenERP v5.0 and v6.0 with the same code. They have been translated to French. These two modules are already used in production at Anevia (on OpenERP v5); here is the feedback that I got : 1) account_reversal : great, saves a lot of time for the cut-off accounting work ! 2) account_analytic_required : Anevia has set the "Policy for analytic account" to "Always" on the "expense" account type. It works fine... but it raises another issue : we would need to be able to set an analytic account on taxes that are in the invoice ! In this case, it is required for taxes such as eco-taxes that are linked to an account whose type is 'expense'. * Before the installation of this module, they used to confirm the invoice and then update the generated account move lines to add an analytic account on the tax account move line. * Now, when they try to confirm an invoice (click on "create"), the new module raises an error message telling them that the analytic account is missing on the tax account move line. => Do you know a module that adds the ability to set an analytic account on the taxes of an invoice ? If no, I guess we should develop such a module, shouldn't we ? We hope you will enjoy our work. We would welcome your feedback. -- Alexis de Lattre Akretion [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
