lets say you have invoice that was billing in the 2nd quarter but did not get paid till the 3rd quarter. so it got entered in the the wrong part of the fiscal year. not the entry date would be when it got entered in the 3rd Quarter but there is not way to say wait a minute this is suppose to be credited to the 2nd quarter revenues.
Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 8/26/2008 2:25 PM: > Alexander, > > It was a quick answer since this setting is hard to find and I had > nothing else to propose. > It seems that entryDate is there for this purpose, please have a look at > createFinAccountTrans service > > <service name="createFinAccountTrans" engine="simple" > default-entity-name="FinAccountTrans" > location="org/ofbiz/accounting/finaccount/FinAccountServices.xml" > invoke="createFinAccountTrans"> > <description>Create a new Financial Account Transaction. Will use > current timestamp for entryDate and trasanctionDate if none is > provided.</description> > <auto-attributes mode="OUT" optional="false" include="pk"/> > <auto-attributes mode="IN" optional="true" include="nonpk"> > <exclude field-name="performedByPartyId"/> > </auto-attributes> > </service> > > UI : https://localhost:8443/accounting/control/EditFinAccountTrans > > Jacques > > > From: "Alexander Kjeldaas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Hi Jacques, >> >> Thanks for your answer, but I am not sure you understood my question. >> In a system where the fiscal period is part of the transaction, a date >> does not belong to a fiscal period, and two transactions that are on >> the same day might be in different fiscal periods. >> So the transaction date does not define the fiscal period for the >> transaction. >> >> When you close the books, and someone comes along with an invoice or >> something that belonged to the closed period, it seems that you need >> to lie about the transaction date in order to get it into the new >> (open) period. Is this how one usually do this sort of thing? >> >> - A >> >> 2008/8/26 Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/EditCustomTimePeriod >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> From: "Technology Investor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I see that FinAccountTrans does not have any period information for a >>>> transaction. >>>> What I am used to is that the fiscal period is independent of the >>>> transaction date so that I can have an entry in fiscal period Q3 2008 >>>> but where the transaction actually happened in Q2 (but the guy came >>>> too late with the invoice so the books were closed). >>>> How is this situation typically handled in ofbiz? >>>> >>>> - A >>>> >>> >> > > > >
