Hi Erik,
Thank you very much for your detailed description of the migration process, it
is very useful!
Cheers,
István
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Feladó: "Erik Huelsmann" ehu...@gmail.com
Címzett: ledger-smb-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Dátum: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 20:22:27 +0100
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>Hi Istvan,
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>The strategy that I used when migrating to LedgerSMB is the following:
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> * create customers and vendors as needed
>
>* create at least the parts and services for which there are open AR or AP
>items in the
>closing balance
>
>* create the open AR/AP items in the closing balance by posting them on the
>original
>opening date (this allows you to do your aging management in LSMB from day 1)
>
>* create in addition the parts for which you have stock in the closing balance
>
> * import your stock by posting invoices against the inventory entity
>
> * make sure you "pay" the invoices - e.g. by paying them from equity
>
> * draw up the incomplete balance you have so far
>
>* calculate the delta of the partially imported balance against the closing
>balance
>
>* import the delta balance on top of what you already had to make a full
>balance
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>
>What I did is post the transaction from the last step on the day before I
>wanted to start my
>books; say you want to start your books on 2014-01-01, then you'd post it on
>2013-12-31. That
>way, the opening balance of your books on the starting date is exactly what
>you had on the
>closing balance of the books you left behind.
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>Regards,
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>Erik.
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>On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Pongrácz István pongracz.ist...@gmail.com
>wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for the comments!
>
>I spoke with my accountant and we found that, this question is in a special
>case of
>opening a new book, using some numbers from the old book.
>
>In other words:
>- we close the financial year in one book
>- we open the next financial year in a new book.
>
>We have to transfer existing stocks, balances etc.
>
>The question in general, what is the proper way to do this, without making
>accountants
>and supervisors crazy :)
>
>In our new books there are some accounts, which holds opening values/amounts.
>
>For example, just speak about the stock items.
>Let's say, I have 10 units of barebone computers. Already paid last year to
>the real
>vendor, it is on the old book (SL) etc.
>
>In the new book, I create a vendor invoice with these 10 barebone computers,
>where the
>vendor is the Inventory Entity.
>-> If I put the real amounts, I purchased last year, it will increase the:
> 4541 - vendor account and 2610 - stock values
>Instead of 4541, we really need to be able to choose the 4910, which is the
>opening
>account. Otherwise it seems ok, at least, 2610 has a value, which seems
>correct, but not the 4541.
>
>I guess the workaround could be in this case: enter the invoice like above and
>fix it by
>transfer the amount from 4541 to 4910 as a General Journal entry. ->
>Accountant will screem and
>must be careful when the opening values will be transferred from the old book
>into the new
>one.
>
>Or should I add 4910 temporarly to AP transactions to be able to put values
>directly to
>that account and after the opening process, get out from AP transactions?
>
>-> If I enter discount 100%, I will get 0 on 4541 and 2610. As I checked this
>option, I can
>see only 2610 is hit by the invoice, but without value (empty amount), which
>is not really
>true, due to that, the stock has a value.
>
>I guess, in this case amount must be transferred from the opening balance
>(let's say
>4910) to 2610 to have stock amounts.
>
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>
>As shown in the example above, opening a new book with initial values and
>stocks, could
>be a challange, because accountants will try to find the menu entry: opening
>books /
>inventory control.
>
>If there is no such a menu entry for that, there should be a way to do these
>actions in a
>correct way, which should be clear enough to pass the control from government
>:)
>
>
>So, do you have any experience with this kind of operation?
>
>Thanks,
>István
>
>
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