[jira] [Commented] (OFBIZ-5282) Introduce Accounting ledger segmentation

["Nu Huynh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nu Huynh commented on OFBIZ-5282:
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Hi all, 
I'm a former auditor, and currently work in an ERP project for a group of companies. I have gone through the document from Simon and totally agree with it. These are the standard functionalities that a standard ERP/accounting package should have.
Regarding general accounting reports & consolidation, point 2.11 and 2.15, which I have been testing, my first opinion is the calculation (adding up GL accounts' balance to individual report and consolidated report) works well. However, the interface and format of reports definitely need improvement as per describe in the doc.
Hope to see the community have more issues from this doc solved in the near future.

> Introduce Accounting ledger segmentation
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFBIZ-5282
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5282
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: accounting
>    Affects Versions: Trunk
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Hans Bakker
>         Attachments: Specification of Requirements.docx, Specification of Requirements.docx, ledgersegment-2013-12-24.patch, ledgersegmentOct18.patch
>
>
> We have the possibility here to be able to introduce Apache OFBiz accounting in a large multi company organization. This organization is evaluating the several alternatives and after evaluation of OFBiz, came up with a function which OFBiz needs to have, in order to be considered.
> The user story:
> Although OFBiz accounting has the 'costcenter' function, it is not fine-grained enough, we need to be able to segment the ledger to a lower level that the GL accounts namely to the accounting transaction.. Further, all existing reports should have the facility to be able to select a segment of the ledger for either costing, profit or other purposes like special projects.
> The proposed user interface.
> We need at least at the order item level the ability to specify a parent-segment/segment and a percentage, if the percentange is not 100% the remainder to 100% should be assigned to another segment.
> These segments can be defined and assigned by the user to the order item upon entry. When the related invoice is created the segment(s) will be copied and can overridden before posting when these segment names will be copied to the accounting transaction.
> The proposed user reporting.
> All existing ledger reports will have the additional ability to select these segments and will only incorporate accounting transactions where this segment is specified.
> The proposed technical implementation.
> 1. add a new entity called LedgerSegment with fields: ledgerSegmentId, parentSegmentId, description
> 2. add another 3 similar entities: OrderItemSegment, InvoiceItemSegment, AcctTransSegment to make the relation to the LedgerSegment entity and to specify the percentage.
> 3. Change the order, invoice, accounting transaction screens and ledger report entity views to be able to use the segment names when available in the LedgerSegment entity
> As i said , please let me know what you think, this is a great opportunity for OFBiz accounting.
> Regards,
> Hans Bakker
> CEO AntWebsystems.com



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