I totally agree on these changes. This will also helps in effective report generations.
Regards -- Chirag Manocha Freelancer +91-98263-19099 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jacopo Cappellato < [email protected]> wrote: > I would like to introduce the following changes to the entity definitions > of AcctgTrans and AcctgTransEntry: > > 1) move the field AcctgTransEntry.currencyUomId to AcctgTrans.currencyUomId > (but keeping the AcctgTransEntry.origCurrencyUomId as is now) > 2) add the new field AcctgTrans.totalAmount: for a valid transaction the > field (its absolute value) will have to match with absolute value of the sum > of all credits (or debits); before a transaction it is posted, the system > will check that AcctgTrans.totalAmount = sum of all credits > (AcctgTransEntry) = sum of all debits (AcctgTransEntry) > > Main reasons for this: > a) since the records in AcctgTrans actually represents the lines of a > Journal, it makes sense to have in them all the fields required by journals > (type/description of the transaction, date and amount) > b) the user workflow will be improved: when the AcctgTrans is created > (before the entries) the user already know the amount to be posted (and > split into the different Ledgers) > > What do you think? > > Jacopo > >
