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[Chris Halls <chris.halls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 23 April 2010 09:45:42 Borja López Soilán (Pexego) wrote:
> Chris Halls escribió:
> > Here's another idea: allow creation of draft opening/closing year entries
> > without being forced to actually close the year. And on doing the final
> > close, replace the draft entries with a final version.
> 
> This is just what we are doing on the Spanish localization. We created a
> new "fiscal year closing" wizard (l10n_ES_cierre_ejercicio) that creates
> P&L and closing entries (that set the accounts balance to 0), and then
> opening entries which 'restore' the balance [so you only have to look at
> the current year to know the current balance]. The entries are created
> on draft state until the user confirms the closing of the year.
> 
> The wizard also lets the user recompute the entries anytime: it takes
> care of deleting the old entries (also unreconciles them), reopening
> (unlocking) the fiscal year and periods, creating the new entries and
> locking again the periods and year.

I actually can see a use for both approaches: Ferdinand's method is good when 
you start the next fiscal year and have not yet had all of the paperwork to 
create the entries for the previous year. It means you can still see up to 
date balances even while the accounts are not yet complete.

When you are then close to finishing all the entries for the fiscal year but are 
not yet completely ready.. say, you want to be able to generate and see the 
year end movements but possibly make some journal entries for accounting 
adjustments based on the draft year end balances, and then redo the year end 
moves.

So my suggestion would be to allow both methods to be used, and for them to be 
able to coexist such that Ferdinand's changes could be only seen if there were 
no draft year end entries.

Chris

Disclaimer: I haven't yet read the code of those changes to see if it's 
possible :)
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