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[Borja López Soilán <borjalopezsoilan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fabien, I'll explain a bit more (as it seems there are more differences
between Belgium accounting and Spanish accounting than I though):

We have these two main "user histories":

  A - "I'm an accountant of an Spanish company, after closing a fiscal
year I need to print my Journal (for that year) with all the entries
numbered in sequential order by date without gaps, so I can handle it to
the Mercantile Register"

  B - "I'm an accountant of an Spanish company, after closing a period I need to print the list of the invoices (for that period) grouped by sequence and numbered in sequential order by date without gaps, so I can handle it to the Mercantile Register"
  

Now notice that:

  - In user history A, I say "Journal": for a Spanish company there is a
single "Journal"; we don't use different sequences on different
"journals" as (outside OpenERP) we simple don't have "journals" but just
one big "Journal" for everything (1*).

  - In user history B, I talk about "grouping invoices by sequence": we
are allowed to have different invoice sequences (2*), even more, we are
forced to have different sequences for invoices and refunds.


In addition, we 'must' not do changes in the invoices, and we 'should' not do changes in the accounting entries: it is pretty usual on Spain to renumber the account numbers when closing the fiscal year (every Spanish accounting software has that feature), but renumbering the (customer) invoices is not legal (or even feasible, as they may be printed & sent already).


If you are interested these are the legal orders that force us to work like that:

*1 "Código de Comercio de 1885" ("Comercial Code of 1885"), point 28.2:
"2. El libro Diario registrará día a día todas las operaciones relativas a la actividad de la empresa." (http://www.gabilos.com/leyes/ccom.l1t3.html#a28)
Badly translated: "The Journal book would register day by day every operation related to the company activities." (notice that "every", and that it says "book" not "books").


*2 Order "RD 1496/2003", point 6 "Contenido de la factura." ("Invoice contents"):
"Número y, en su caso, serie. La numeración de las facturas dentro de cada serie será correlativa.
Se podrán expedir facturas mediante series separadas cuando existan razones que lo justifiquen y, entre otros supuestos, cuando el obligado a su expedición cuente con varios establecimientos desde los que efectúe sus operaciones y cuando el obligado a su expedición realice operaciones de distinta naturaleza." (http://www.gabilos.com/leyes/rd1496-2003.t1.html#a2)
Badly translated: "(Invoices content: ...) Number, and if needed, sequence. Invoices numbering inside each sequence will be correlative.
Invoices can be emited using different series when there are reasons to justify it and, among other reasons, when the emisor does its operations from several places and when the operations have different nature"


CONCLUSION: we are need to use several sequences for invoices, but we must use a single sequence for all the account moves! That's why the new 6.0 behavior isn't valid for us, but 5.0 behavior was alright!


I hope now we understand better each other :)

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[6.0] Invoices use the "Journal Sequence" instead of the "Invoice In/Out" sequences 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662821
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Status in OpenObject Server: Invalid

Bug description:
The invoices, on addons 6.0 (revid jth@xxxxxxxxxxx-20101018132907-9cnfm4yzn3w01gox) use the Journal Sequence by default instead of the "Invoice In/Out/Refund In/Refund Out" sequences, and it is not possible to setup the sequence to use (the "invoice_sequence_id" field has been removed from the view).

That is completely invalid, as the invoices will have holes in their numbering!, so this bug should be considered critical.

HOW TO REPRODUCE:

  - On a fresh database with the accounting installed and no invoices nor journal entries yet:
  - Create an invoice and confirm it. The invoice will receive number "1" (the same as the journal entry for the invoice).
  - Pay the invoice (voucher), the voucher journal entry will receive number "2".
  - Create a new invoice and confirm it. The invoice will receive number "3" (instead of "2").

NOTES:

On some countries like Spain, we should have a single sequence for all the journal entries (as if we had a single journal), but we may have several invoice sequences.
Also, at least on Spain, we are not allowed to renumber the invoices (after handing it to a customer) under any circumstance, but its common to renumber the accounting entries (they only have to be numbered sequentially by date on the fiscal year closing).
And finally, on Spain, we don't need to restart the invoices sequence each year, but we must do so with the journal entries sequence.