(OFBiz) accounting experts: I need you opinion!
We have the possibility here to be able to introduce Apache OFBiz
accounting in a large multi company organization. This organization is
evaluating the several alternatives and after evaluation of OFBiz, came
up with a function which OFBiz needs to have, in order to be considered.
The user story:
Although OFBiz accounting has the 'costcenter' function, it is not
fine-grained enough, we need to be able to segment the ledger to a lower
level that the GL accounts namely to the accounting transaction..
Further, all existing reports should have the facility to be able to
select a segment of the ledger for either costing, profit or other
purposes like special projects.
The proposed user interface.
We need at least at the order item level the ability to specify a
parent-segment/segment and a percentage, if the percentange is not 100%
the remainder to 100% should be assigned to another segment.
These segments can be defined and assigned by the user to the order item
upon entry. When the related invoice is created the segment(s) will be
copied and can overridden before posting when these segment names will
be copied to the accounting transaction.
The proposed user reporting.
All existing ledger reports will have the additional ability to select
these segments and will only incorporate accounting transactions where
this segment is specified.
The proposed technical implementation.
1. add a new entity called LedgerSegment with fields: ledgerSegmentId,
parentSegmentId, description
2. add another 3 similar entities: OrderItemSegment, InvoiceItemSegment,
AcctTransSegment to make the relation to the LedgerSegment entity and to
specify the percentage.
3. Change the order, invoice, accounting transaction screens and ledger
report entity views to be able to use the segment names when available
in the LedgerSegment entity
As i said , please let me know what you think, this is a great
opportunity for OFBiz accounting.
Regards,
Hans Bakker
CEO AntWebsystems.com
