Jacopo,
I was talking to our accountant about this the other
day. He said in a manual system, each division would
be responsible for maintaining its own GL, and the
results of those division's GLs would be posted to the
parent company's GL.
In other words, the divisions would have all of the
journal detail, but only their ending balances, etc
would be posted to the parent company's GL.
-Adrian
--- Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best way to implement the ability to
> setup default GL
> settings for divisions for a certain company?
>
> For example, in the OFBiz demo data, we have the
> "Company" company and
> some division (internal organizations, part of
> Company): MARKETING,
> ACCOUNTING, SALES, DEV, TESTING.
>
> After that we setup the GL settings for the main
> company ("Company"),
> what should we do to implement the GL settings for
> its divisions?
> What are the data that we have to duplicate?
> Recently David Jones suggested an interesting
> approach for the
> PartyAcctgPreference entity: if the record is
> missing for a division,
> then get the one of its parent; in this way we can
> define, in a central
> place one Error Journal for all the divisions, one
> currency etc...
> We could also share the same approach for all the Gl
> type/account
> mappings... but here things get tricky: how can we
> know if we have to
> look at the parent's settings? Can we use the
> existence of the
> PartyAcctgPreference as a way to know if there are
> settings for the
> division or not?
> However there are records that simply need to be
> copied over:
> GlAccountOrganization (and possibly others) is a
> good example; how
> should we implement this? Automatically copy the
> record, when it is
> created, to all the divisions?
>
> There are many other similar issues and now I'm
> start wondering if it is
> not simply better to just provide some import/export
> features that
> facilitate the process of cloning an accounting
> setup from one
> company/division to another one.
>
> Hmmm... so many questions... please help.
>
> Jacopo
>
>
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