On 08 Mar 19:08, Marco Huymajer wrote:
> * Cédric Krier <[email protected]> [05.03 19:04]:
> 
> > On 04 Mar 23:40, Albert Cervera i Areny wrote:
> > > After some discussion with this [1] issue it seems that it's not been
> > > clearly stated what the party field in account move lines means. It
> > > could be one of:
> > > 
> > > - it is just a flag that represents the owning (that is, who made that
> > > move happen)
> > > - it is an easy way to implement sub-account per party.
> > > 
> > > I had always taken for granted that party was used to implement
> > > sub-account and hence the issue and the corresponding codereview.
> > > 
> > > What is other people's opinion on this? What's your expected behaviour
> > > taking into account the use case described in [1]?
> > 
> > If the second one is picked, we should enforce it by making party
> > required for any move line on receivable/payable and probably hide it
> > (+maturity date) for others.
> > Such behavior could lead to a more complicate implementation in the
> > furture of POS for which we don't know the party. But maybe it could be
> > solved by using a company as party in such case.
> 
> I vote for the sub-account usage as well.  But I don't think it would be a
> good idea to enforce the usage on all receivable/payable accounts because
> there are some receivable/payable accounts which have an implied party
> like the tax office, the social insurance etc.  It would be a PITA for the
> accountant to select a party in cases like that.
> 
> As you always say: More constraints = less flexible.
> 
> Will this change have any impact on the current usage on revenue and expense
> accounts?

The account kind has nothing to do with the balance sheet, it is a
technical field used by Tryton to allow to filter some accounts.
Normally, the tax accounts are not set with the kind payable but with
the kind other.
The kind payable/receivable are especially used for account that
register a debt to a party.

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Cédric Krier - B2CK SPRL
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