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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

On 22-02-12 09:42, James Jesudason wrote:
> Having looked at what's involved, I think there's a simpler approach 
> that we could take that will work require much less code. Instead of 
> calculating and generating the journals ourselves, we could create an 
> account.voucher record (since all the information needed for that has 
> already been collected). Then let the account.voucher handle all of 
> the multi-currency considerations, since it already handles single and 
> multi-currency scenarios. There have been extra development in the 6.1 
> account_voucher to handle things like currency revaluation.
>
> The benefits of this approach are:
>  1. We're using the standard approach for generating the bank rec 
> journals, but using a simpler screen.
>  2. We don't have to rebuild a lot of logic that is already in the 
> standard module.
>  3. We reduce complexity of the account_banking module, reducing the 
> number of lines-of-code that we need to maintain.
>
> What do you think?

Hi James,

full integration with account_voucher is something that we've know for 
some time to be the way forward for the Banking Addons, but we just 
never got round to do it. Your arguments sum it up all the more 
convincingly and I would be all in favour of it.

Regards,
Stefan.

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