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["Borja López Soilán (Pexego)" <borjals@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your quick answer Olivier :)

Olivier Dony wrote:
> > *How do you manage bank transfers between your own bank accounts (two
> > bank accounts of your company) with the **OpenERP **bank statements?
> > (same transaction on two bank statements, just one accounting move)
> >     
>
> My intuition would be that this must be managed with an interim account,
> as you would do it for vouchers etc. (i.e. you don't need to modify the
> system in any way.)
>   
Mmm... though it is not exactly intuitive, from an accountant point of 
view*, that might work :)

/* A Spanish accountant would usually create a direct move with the two 
accounts associated to the bank journals, instead of two moves (we don't 
even have such "interim bank accounts" on the official Spanish Chart of 
Accounts). On other Spanish ERPs, we just had a "bank transfer" document 
or wizard that created such 'single account move' transfers.
Anyway, I don't think the accountant would yell at us for using an 
auxiliary account :)/

> You can't directly make a move between you two GL accounts because this
> is really done by the banks (even different ones). It could even be that
> the money transfer is stuck for a while or even cancelled.
>
> So to transfer from Bank Account A to Bank Account B you should in fact
> have:
> - one move from Bank Account A to Interim Bank Account (in one bank
> statement)
> - then when you receive the other bank statement you have another move
> from Interim Bank Account to Bank Account B.
>   
Yep, that would be a good (user-level) explanation to "why we need 
interim/auxiliary accounts" doing bank transfers.

Maybe it would be useful to include this 'use case' (with your 
explanation) on the OpenERP manual about bank statements 
<http://doc.openerp.com/book/3/3_7/accounting_entries.html#managing-bank-statements>.

Thanks :)

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