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[Borja López Soilán <borjalopezsoilan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi experts!

As you should know, this week the first release candidate of OpenERP 6.0 
was released.

It brings important and long commented changes to the accounting, like 
the (nice) voucher integration. But there are also changes that may pass 
unnoticed until you fully review the application.

One of those changes is the numeration of Invoices and Journal Entries. 
The old behavior on 5.0 was to have different sequences for invoices and 
accounting entries: the users could set an invoice sequence AND an entry 
sequence per journal. On 6.0 instead we have the sequence for both 
invoices and accounting entries: there is just one sequence per journal, 
invoices will just display the same number as the accounting entry for 
that invoice.

As discussed on this bug report 
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/662821>, this new 
(6.0) behavior seems to be better for some countries, for example 
Olivier Dony explained that "/this is the desired behavior in v6 and 
normally guarantees that invoices and their journal entries will always 
have the same numbers, greatly easing various accounting operations that 
used to require matching invoices numbers and entries numbers/". But it 
is not viable for other countries like Spain, where the companies are 
forced to maintain different sequences for invoices and journal entries 
(something that worked perfectly on 5.0).

So, as a summary, we identified these opposite cases:

   * A: Some countries (Belgium):
         o Have multiple "journals", each journal may have its own
           sequence.
         o The invoices need to display the same number as the related
           accounting entry.
         o The invoices must not be deleted or moved (renumbered) once
           confirmed.
         o The accounting entries must not be be deleted or moved
           (renumbered) once confirmed.
         o Journals are printed each period.
         o (no need to print the list of invoices?)

   * B: Some countries (Spain):
         o Have a single "Journal" for all the accounting entries (only
           one sequence for all the accounting moves).
         o The invoices need to display a number independent from the
           related accounting entry number, and there are several
           sequences of invoices (vs one sequence for accounting entries).
         o The invoices must not be deleted or moved (renumbered) once
           confirmed.
         o The accounting entries should not be be deleted or moved
           (renumbered) once confirmed; but they may be under some
           circumstances (so a tool to renumber the entries is needed).
         o Journal is printed after the fiscal year closing.
         o The invoices list (grouped by sequence) is printed on each
           period.

So, here it comes the pool: *How many other countries fit each one of 
those two cases?* (Do you know more cases?)

Thanks to everybody wishing to reply :)

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Borja López Soilán
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