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Type of Account Account types are mainly used as informative titles. The only two types that have any particular effect are Receivable and Payable http://doc.openerp.com/v6.0/book/3/3_9/chart_of_accounts.html Cut and paste from documentation although it is a little unclear whether this refers to user type or internal type. Personally I am for standardising them and documenting their use, as it should make localisation simpler make multicompany simpler enable more elegant extension of account related modules (for example in account voucher someone has use report type to filter supplier voucher which is very incorrect, but as there is no standard for account type I guess they felt it their only option). Not having a standard classification makes domain filtering for the general case unreliable, and very localisation dependent. maybe enable newer and better reports and statistics standards already exist in the form of IFRS but I also accept that this may not be possible due to some countries possibly having specific classifications (although given they aren't currently used does it even matter) A possible intermediate compromise is to agree the standard ones, integrate them in to the account base data or a new module for all it matters, and get charts that only need the standard ones to refer to them instead of creating their own each time, because currently in multicompany we get lots of duplicates when different companies use different charts. Should make translations better too. But before doing that it would help to understand exactly what and where the account type is used now - AFAIK it is used at least indirectly in Balance Sheet and P&L reports, but after that it gets confusing because there is 3 account types internal, user and report and they are all quite similar. Oh and definitely change the help text. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Bogdan Stanciu < [email protected]> wrote: > On 18. 08. 11 18:43, Ferdinand @ Camptocamp wrote: > > @Graeme > > 1) I agree that having multicompany is adding complexity - but it seems > necessary if the help text says so. > > > > 2) if account_account_type is populated by nationalization I just wonder > > what will happen in multicompany envirenment if 2 or more > > nationalizations are loaded. - no uniqueness is enforced (6.0.3) > > > @Ferdinand > > allow me to disagree on the first one: the help should not lead the > function, it shoud explain it. > on the second one: what kind of country specificity should you need for > "assets", "liabilities", "profit", and so on. > > i agree that this field is poorly documented, and sometimes even poorly > used. > afaik, it is used mostly for reporting and filtering (domain = ). > therefore, a good standard should/could only help... > > regards, > bogdan > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to OpenERP > Addons. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828174 > > Title: > account.user_type - insufficient spec > > Status in OpenERP Modules (addons): > Opinion > > Bug description: > 'user_type': fields.many2one('account.account.type', 'Account > Type', required=True, > help="These types are defined according to your country. The > type contains more information "\ > "about the account and its specificities."), > > there is neither country_id nor company_id in account_account_type - > hence the help text is somewhat missleading. > > IMHO company_id should be added to account_account_type to allow true > multi company (country) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/828174/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of C2C OERPScenario, which is subscribed to the OpenERP Project Group. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828174 Title: account.user_type - insufficient spec Status in OpenERP Modules (addons): Opinion Bug description: 'user_type': fields.many2one('account.account.type', 'Account Type', required=True, help="These types are defined according to your country. The type contains more information "\ "about the account and its specificities."), there is neither country_id nor company_id in account_account_type - hence the help text is somewhat missleading. IMHO company_id should be added to account_account_type to allow true multi company (country) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/828174/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~c2c-oerpscenario Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~c2c-oerpscenario More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
