* Betr.: " [tryton-dev] Number of digits in chart of accounts creation" (Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:16:23 +0100):
> In Spain, the number of digits of account numbers is fixed for all accounts
> (or better said, for non-view accounts). The thing is that the number of
> fixed digits is choosen by the company so we have customers that use 6
> digits, others 8, others 9 and one even uses 11 digits.
>
> This means that we do not know the exact account code until the chart of
> accounts is created and we need to know that number in the
> "account.account.create_chart_account" wizard.
>
> Let me put an example. There's the following account structure:
>
> 4 - (view) Acreedores y deudores => Customers and Suppliers
> 43 - (view) Clientes => Customers
> 430 - (view) Clientes => Customers
> 4300 - (view) Clientes (euros) => Customers (euro)
> 4300000 - (receivable) Clientes
>
> The number of zeros in the last account should depend on the number of digits
> the company decides to work with.
>
> So basically what we'd need:
> - Add a new field to "account.account.create_chart_account.account" that
> allowed the user to select the number of digits.
> - To be able to do is to use a special sign in the account code that allowed
> us define codes such as "4300%" or "472%18", which would be replaced by the
> necessary number of "0" so that the final code has the required number of
> digits.
>
> Do other countries need that? Should we put that into core or better in a new
> module?
To my knowledge this (digitos subcuentas) is really a pecularity of Spain
(Spanish language area?), at least it is not needed in the German language area
(D-A-CH), neither Belgium nor France... For me it should go into a separate
module.
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Mathias Behrle
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