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[Davide Corio <davide.corio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi experts,

IMO, one of the big lacks of openerp accounting is the absence of the
"Full Cost" management: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_cost_accounting

We can compute administrative costs using analytic accounting, B.I. and
so on, but there's no way to split those costs and all of the indirect
costs on the final price of goods.

Big companies usually follow market trends to determine the price of a
product but... SMEs often try to sell their goods by splitting indirect
costs on the production costs in order to have a precise profit and to
be sure they have enough money to the pay the bills and salaries every
months.

Let me give you an example.

John produces screws.
It has a secretary, a phone line, a car, an office, etc etc...

His main goal is to give the secretary a salary, pay the office/car
rents, pay the bills...and finally buy a new gold ring for his wife.

He knows the production costs for a single screw is 0.1 USD and he wants
to make a profit of 0.05 USD for every screw.

So he can apply a mark-up on the production cost, but...

He doesn't know what's the real profit because he cannot split the
indirect costs (rents, bills, ...) on that 0.1 USD.

At the moment, IMO, there's no way to compute this value with OpenERP.
Every ERP or accounting software i tried before lets you compute the
list price of a product taking care of indirect costs.

Any ideas?
Did someone already thought about this problem?
 

-- 
Davide Corio
email: davide.corio<at>domsense.com
web: http://www.domsense.com