openerp-expert-accounting team mailing list archive

[Don Kirkby <551543@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I changed the wording to say that Pro Forma invoices don't have an
invoice number or accounting entries, but I'm not an accounting expert,
so please review the changes here:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp-community/openobject-
doc/trunk/revision/475


** Changed in: openobject-doc
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenERP
Accounting Experts, which is a direct subscriber.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551543

Title:
  pro-forma invoices: documentation doesn't match implementation

Status in OpenObject Addons Modules:
  Invalid
Status in OpenERP Documentation:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm not an international accountant, but it seems the term "pro-forma
  invoice" is ambiguous and can describe 2 kind of invoices, and
  unfortunately there is an ambiguity about what pro-forma invoices are
  supposed to be in OpenERP: with or without accounting moves attached.

  The manual reads "A Pro Forma invoice doesn’t yet have an invoice number, but the accounting entries on the invoice that’s created correspond to the amounts that Open ERP will record as the customer’s payables": http://doc.openerp.com/book/3/3_7/accounting_workflow.html#open-or-pro-forma-invoices
  This is one way of managing pro-forma invoices: an invoice without a number, with accounting entries. It seems to be a disputable practice, and it's forbidden here in France, but in some places people seem to understand "pro-forma invoices" this way however.

  But in the implementation of v5.0, pro-forma invoices really are
  invoices without a number and without accounting entries. French
  people (among others) understand "pro-forma invoices" this way.

  So, either the doc is wrong or the implementation is wrong - but it has to be settled and fixed.
  Lionel.