Some remarks to sum up * Creating a new fiscal year must be isolated from closing the old one. (as it is already)
* Closing a period or fiscal year ** prohibits new postings in this period / fiscal year *** creates closing moves or *** use summary periods - see next post * Purge data of old fiscal years - this is a really complicated matter. ** in Austria we have to keep accounting data for at least 7 years and we have to be able to supply these data in CSV exports to fiscal authorities. ** we have found that unreconciled moves may survive many years - think of long term loans ** even after the 7 years we have found that in lawsuits it is advantageous to have access to older data than 7 years. - recently it was helpful for one company to present data dated 1934 !! ** the cost of keeping old data is very low - so we kept old data ** one "clean" way of dealing with unreconciled moves is to separated account moves and the reconcile stuff into 2 different tables. this way it is possible to purge fiscal years (older than 7 years in Austria) AND keep unreconciled moves as long as needed without having to adjust any pointers. *** it is necessary to present a fiscal statement which shows the unreconciled moves for any given date - especially end of the fiscal year - we did this finding **** all unreconciled moves posted earlier than the given date **** all reconciled moves posted earlier than the given date which are reconciled with a move posted (in a period) after the given date. ( I do not know which date in OpenERP is suitable for this. We used a statement date - invoice date, bank draft date etc - which determined the period.) -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openerp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=24924#24924 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
