On 28/05/13 13:19 +0200, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: > Several months ago there was a discussion [1] where it was justified > the link between analytics and accounting. There I agreed with this > need but I have somewhat changed my view on that. > > Some background to justify why having analytics linked to accounting > is not the best option for all use cases: > > Soon after that discussion we had a requirement for managing budgets > with analytics. A public foundation who manages public and private > funds needed to have a robust system to ensure the money spent on a > given project did not exceed the funds. Analytics (with a budget > management module) are appropriate for that, but one needs to ensure > that purchase orders are treated as committed budget, even if there > has not been any accounting moves. > > At the same time, one needs to ensure that the comparison between > accounting profit & loss report and analytics is correct and that can > only happen if analytics have their move in accounting. > > Our solution with the unnamed software was to: > - Create analytic moves unlinked from accounting on purchases and sales. > - Ensure that move lines of non profit & loss move lines have NO analytic > moves. > - Ensure that ALL move lines of profit & loss move lines DO have > analytic moves and that analytic and accounting amounts match. > - When opening the analytic plan (in the wizard), allow the user to > show only aggregated information of analytic moves that have linked > accounting: this way it is possible to ensure that analytic and > accounting profit & loss match. > - Add a simple way to find out which analytic moves do not have linked > accounting lines with a filter.
For me, including sale or purchase order (not yet invoiced) looks like a kind of forecast. Why not just include them within a report (SQL view)? Or create the invoice earlier in the purchase/sale process and have the invoice create draft move (like when validate a supplier invoice) on which you will have your "draft" analytic move. > Another demand, from another company, has been the creation of > analytic lines when stocks are moved from certain locations and > explicitly without moves on accounting. In this case they treat > several locations (farms and animal feed factories) as independent and > each move from one location to another is considered as an internal > sale in analytic accounting at cost price. As said, in this case, > there's never a related accounting move. Still possible to just create a null move for that a little bit like account_stock_continental. -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email/Jabber: [email protected] Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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