You have accounting cost centers. this shows up in the GL Take a look at https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/accounting/control/GlAccountNavigate one way to implement a profit center is 100000.profitcentercode and for cash account 111100.profitcentercode https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/accounting/control/GlAccountNavigate?glAccountId=111100&trail=100000|100000|110000|111000|111100
The second part is the Party organization. https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/partymgr/control/findparty select the internalorganization and click on lookup. you will see differnt ID for departments or profitcenters. this is no longer in the svn but I think it is a good example. - <!-- A sample parent/subsidiary structure: Company has subsidiaries CompanySub1 and CompanySub2 CompanySub1 in turns has a subsidiary CompanySub3 Roles and relationships defined based on the getParentOrganizations in party/servicedef/services_view.xml --> <Party partyId="CompanySub1" partyTypeId="PARTY_GROUP" /> <PartyGroup partyId="CompanySub1" groupName="Company's First Subsidiary" /> <Party partyId="CompanySub2" partyTypeId="PARTY_GROUP" /> <PartyGroup partyId="CompanySub2" groupName="Company's Second Subsidiary" /> <Party partyId="CompanySub3" partyTypeId="PARTY_GROUP" /> <PartyGroup partyId="CompanySub3" groupName="Company's Third Subsidiary" /> <PartyRole partyId="Company" roleTypeId="PARENT_ORGANIZATION" /> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub1" roleTypeId="ORGANIZATION_UNIT" /> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub1" roleTypeId="INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO" /> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub1" roleTypeId="PARENT_ORGANIZATION" /> - <!-- CompanySub1 is both a subsidiary and a parent --> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub2" roleTypeId="ORGANIZATION_UNIT" /> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub2" roleTypeId="INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO" /> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub3" roleTypeId="ORGANIZATION_UNIT" /> <PartyRole partyId="CompanySub3" roleTypeId="INTERNAL_ORGANIZATIO" /> Mugunth Subramanian sent the following on 1/8/2008 6:03 AM: > Hi all, > I could not find documentation on handling cost center concept in ofbiz. > > our company has about 5 cost centers. We need to associate the accounts > to various cost centers. > We need to be able to take reports for the whole company or to various > cost centers. > > I am not sure how to handle cost centers. Pls help to clarify this. > > Thanks, > Mugunth > > > >
