In many jurisdictions it is the law that you must be able to retrieve all business documents EXACTLY AS THEY WERE AT THE TIME OF THEIR CREATION. No changes in account numbers, totals, addresses, phone numbers, personnel, or personnel titles, etc. It is also a requirement that you have a search and retrieval system for these documents. And that is the purpose of a historical temporal data repository, to comply with the financial auditing regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US and its equivalent that have been adopted in many other countries.
Reporting is the same thing. For prior closed periods you should be pulling your data from a historical temporal data repository or from some guaranteed immutable data source. Regards, Gerry -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31416#31416 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
