Title: Eric CAUDAL
I am not so worried on the BS reporting
(for the moment...) but I think we are on the same line, meaning
that when a payment is issued before the invoice is created it is
a prepayment and it should be recorded in a different account from
the general AR account (In China at least and several other
countries). This is currently not possible with the current module
which relies on the general AR account to do so automatically
(in method _prepare_payment_move_line)
credit_line = {
'name': move_name,
'debit': 0.0,
'credit': amount,
'account_id':
partner.property_account_receivable.id,
'journal_id': journal.id,
'period_id': period.id,
'partner_id': partner.id,
'date': date,
'amount_currency': -amount_currency,
'currency_id': currency_id,
}
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On 11/18/2013 07:31 PM, MG @Laposte wrote:
I don't fully understand the opinion
stating that
prepayment accounts have to be different from the AR/AP
general account for the mere reason that they are on the other
side of the BS
AR/AP (accounts receivable/ accounts payable) must be used to
record any transation with a partner. Their standard accounting
balance is a debit for A/R and a credit for A/P. But when a
transaction like a prepayment or a mere duplicate payment for
instance occurs then the balance can be the opposite of the
standard/expected one: a customer account can be a credit meaning
that the customer has paid in advance of the issuance of an
invoice.
The normal accounting workflow makes such balance appear on the
Balance sheet on the riverse side (credit in our example). This is
not an issue for most of the cases; but some specific national
accounting regulation might impose a specific treatment. These
national specifications should be precisely explained, as
accounting reflects legal requirements.
Le 18/11/2013 07:57, Guewen Baconnier
a écrit :
Hi,
On 11/16/2013 09:28 AM, Eric Caudal wrote:
Hi,
There is an aspect of OpenERP which seems to not very well
implemented
while it is wildly spread in accounting practices: prepayment
treatment.
In many countries (all?), prepayment accounts have to be
different from
the AR/AP general account for the mere reason that they are on
the other
side of the BS. This behavior is at least true in China, NZ,
UK, AU and
probably in any anglo-saxon accounting countries.
We have created a simple module for this (
https://apps.openerp.com/apps/7.0/account_prepayment)
to create a
separate property for AR and AP prepayments. In every
implementation I
have in accounting, the prepayment strategy is a problem in
standard
implementation that we can solve with this very simple module
(my point
is that this module or similar should be actually a standard
module).
In ecommerce sales strategy where payment is made on website,
we can
rely on several modules such as sale_payment_method and
sale_automatic_workflow to automate the payment. Nevertheless,
they rely
on the AR account to create the prepayment transaction which
in my
opinion is not correct.
NB: This could probably be even more complex as for certain
payment
method, account should "Uncleared Payments".
Not sure about that here... Frédéric's opinion is welcome :-)
I am thinking of adapting the sale_payment_method to make it
dependent
on the account_prepayment and add a tickbox "Use prepayment
accounts" in
payment method and automatic_payment method.
I think that's not the correct way: you should rather create a
third module with 'auto_install' on "account_prepayment" and
"sale_payment_method", so when both are installed you get the
tickbox "Use prepayment accounts".
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