Adrian,
thanks for your comments:
Adrian Crum wrote:
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.
Is this done when the financial time period is closed (e.g. at the end
of the year), right?
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.
Ok, this is helpful; however my question was more about the way to setup
the accounting setup (gl mappings, preferences etc...) for each divisions.
Jacopo
-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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