Hans Bakker created OFBIZ-5282:
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Summary: Introduce Accouniting ledger segmentation
Key: OFBIZ-5282
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5282
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Bug
Components: accounting
Affects Versions: SVN trunk
Environment: any
Reporter: Hans Bakker
Assignee: Hans Bakker
Fix For: SVN trunk
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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