Here's the problem with journals.  Yes, journals are used to keep transactions 
in chronological order.  However, each transaction represented in the fiscal 
year periods already belongs to a journal.  And if you are proposing that we 
create the situation where we have lots of transactions and each one belonging 
to multiple journals, I see lots of chances for chaos.

The problem is mainly one of setting opening balances to the fiscal year and 
setting closing adjustments to the fiscal year.  You cannot make those 
adjustments within any of the fiscal periods within the fiscal year without 
corrupting the monthly or quarterly numbers.  This is why every other 
accounting system uses special periods (not journals) for performing these 
accounting adjustments.  And even with the solution I proposed you can really 
have N adjusting periods if you want.  It's just an attribute on a period.

The other part of the problem is how to handle the move_ids such that data can 
be purged, fiscal periods can be closed and yet unpaid invoices can always be 
carried forward and paid in the current period.  This is also dealt with in the 
solution proposed in the blueprint that I submitted.

Regards,
Gerry




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