With analytic_account (and analytic_*) it is possible to define that a given 
hierarchy is required and all lines in invoices, sales and purchases will 
force the user to define an analytic account for that hierarchy. The problem is 
that accounts in those lines may not necessarily be revenue/expense accounts.

One example is assets. Even if we should define an asset account as expense in 
order for it to be available in invoice lines, analytic account should not be 
required in those cases.

Even more, if the final goal is that analytics and accounting match, we should 
also ensure that asset accounts do NOT have an analytic move.

That said, recently a customer asked for analytics in cash accounts. Given 
that not always the analytics should be required for revenue/expense accounts 
but there may be other use cases I'm thinking that we need to improve that 
"required" meaning in analytic hierarchies.

Maybe we should replace the 'required' boolean by a Many2Many to 
account.account.type so that the analytic move is only required for accounts 
of the given types.

Opinions?

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