Hi Heidi, please see my comments inline:
On Jan 15, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Info Olagos wrote: > > b) > I want to know if we can modify the GlAccountClass records in the xml file? > They are: > Debit > Credit > Resource > Asset > Current Asset > Cash and Equivalent > Inventory Asset > Long Term Asset > Liability > Current Liability > Long Term Liability > Equity > Owners Equity > REtained Earnings > Equity Distribution > REturn of Capital > Dividends > REvenue > Income > Cash Income > Non-Cash Income > Expense > Cash Expense > Interest Expense > Cost of Goods Sold Expense > Selling, General and Administrative Expense > Non-Cash Expense > Depreciation > Amortization > Inventory Adjustment > Accumulated Depreciation > Accumulated Amortization > Non-Posting > > Are these id's of these descriptions used anywhere in ofbiz hardcoded or > not? Yes, they are used basically for three purposes: 1) when a financial time period is closed: all the accounts belonging to classes (and subclasses) ASSET, CONTRA-ASSET, LIABILITY and EQUITY are carried into the new period 2) CREDIT and DEBIT classes are used to determine how the balance of an account is computed; for CREDIT accounts the balance is credits minus debits, for DEBIT accounts the balance is debits minus credits 3) in the financial reports (cash flow statement, income statement, balance sheet) the classes are used to retrieve the accounts that are shown in each statement; for example for the balance sheet they are ASSET, CONTRA-ASSET, LIABILITY and EQUITY > HAs anyone an idea how this works. > Eventually i want to modify them for other localizations. > > For localisation we have perhaps to modify them (= add or remove some > items?) . Is that allowed? You can add new subclasses; if you do this according to the rules I have described above you will end up with a system that will continue to work in the proper way, and you will have the ability to further group (using the new classes) your accounts in your financial statements. Hope it helps, Jacopo > > regards, > Heidi > > 2010/1/15 Carsten Schinzer <[email protected]> > >> Morning Heidi, >> >> >> indeed I thought that as well, but finally, it's each company's decision >> which GL they would like to use; hence I rather think the demo account >> definitions are what they are: DEMO data. Hence to be customized per >> customer. >> >> An option would be to define various "boilerplate" demo data sets that >> work, >> e.g. a GL that reflects typical Charts of accounts. >> Let me know your thoughts. >> >> Regards >> >> >> Carsten >> >> >> 2010/1/15 Info Olagos <[email protected]> >> >>> Carsten, >>> >>> I think you should set also in your i18n document on wiki, the >>> DemoGeneralChartOfAccounts.xml GlAccount demo >>> to be localised. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Heidi >>> >>> 2010/1/14 Carsten Schinzer <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Hi Jacopo, >>>> >>>> >>>> well .... errrr .... sort of in the middle of it. >>>> I can thus attach examples of what I did so far, but it's all untested >>>> yet. >>>> >>>> I am especially stuck on the part t hat connects the GL setting to >> OFBiz >>>> specifics such as InvoiceItems, default accounts .. >>>> >>>> I have included the reference to the WIKI doc on i18n (though it makes >>> sens >>>> to boild out ideas on the wiki rather than on the JIRA ticket. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> >>>> Carsten >>>> >>>> >>>> 2010/1/14 Jacopo Cappellato <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> Hi Carsten, >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Carsten Schinzer wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I do have an OFBiz config artifact containing the HGB Para 266 >>>> structure >>>>> as >>>>>> XML Emtity Config for GlAccountingClasses. >>>>>> Question: How to share this ... I could open a JIRA ticket for >>>>> improvement >>>>>> and attach stuff there. >>>>> >>>>> yes, please create a Jira ticket and attach the file or patch to it; >>>>> contribution like this could go into the official project (as demo >> data >>>> that >>>>> is not loaded by default). >>>>> Do you have only gl account classes or a full chart of accounts? >>>>> >>>>> Kind regards, >>>>> >>>>> Jacopo >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> Carsten Schinzer >>>> >>>> Waisenhausstr. 53a >>>> 80637 München >>>> Germany >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Best >> >> Carsten Schinzer >> >> Waisenhausstr. 53a >> 80637 München >> Germany >>
