Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-21 Thread Sharan-F
Hi All I’ve been offline for a few days so missed the original post. Jacques – you’ve been running through the tutorial but please take a look in the main chapter on Business Accounting Setup on page 68. There is a paragraph as follows “It is important that you do not remove accounts that are

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-21 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks for the details Sharan :) Jacques Le 21/08/2014 09:28, Sharan-F a écrit : Hi All I’ve been offline for a few days so missed the original post. Jacques – you’ve been running through the tutorial but please take a look in the main chapter on Business Accounting Setup on page 68. There

Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi, Reading Sharan's books I found that you can't remove an account from the chart of accounts without using the Webtools/Entity Data Maintenance Is there a reason for that, or should we not create a Jira improvement issue? Thanks Jacques

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
Hi Jacques, the reasons are similar to the reasons we don't have a way to remove a Product (and other records) from the system. Jacopo On Aug 20, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Jacques Le Roux jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com wrote: Hi, Reading Sharan's books I found that you can't remove an account from

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks Jacopo, Actually I think I was not clear enough. I know you have the book (Sharan told me), I'm speaking about the page s 371 to 373, and notably Sharan's note at the bottom of page 373. There Sharan details how to associate accounts to a chart of accounts. It's about creating a new

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Pierre Smits
Jacques, Disassociating a gl account from an internal company should only happen when there are no other associations involved (i.e. transactions). When the setup has been done and it is taken into production, the risk of removing the association might jeopardize data integrity. This should never

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Pierre Smits
Addendum: But with a expiration of the association (after having been taken in production, and with transactions) we have to ensure that the data in the transactions will show up in financial reports. Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Pierre Smits
But remember: if you're about to setup a financial accounting structure always involve accounting or fico experts to get the best setup. Because they should be the owners of this. Don't do this on a trial and error basis in a production environment without their buy-in and support. GL setups are

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
exactly... for similar reasons we are not allowing to edit most of the data in PartyAcctgPreferences Jacopo On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com wrote: Jacques, Disassociating a gl account from an internal company should only happen when there are no other

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I got it, thanks Pierre. It's indeed as products as told Jacopo. I was only thinking at the time you create the chart of accounts and make an error. So in this case better indeed to have only the solution Sharan suggests Jacques Le 20/08/2014 11:22, Pierre Smits a écrit : But remember: if

Re: Remove an account from the chart of accounts

2014-08-20 Thread Pierre Smits
Yes, setting up a solid accounting structure (in any ERP system in general, and specifically in OFBiz) can be daunting. That is why organisations hire business consultants that are subject matter experts. Most of the the times this is done in tools like MS Excel first before loaded into the