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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In OpenERP 6.0, the chart of accounts wizard creates bank and cash 
journals as refund journals. We set up our tax definitions so that a 
purchase return subtracts the VAT amount from VAT receivable. Now, this 
is what actually happens when we pay a regular purchase directly from 
cash (instead of adding to VAT receivable which you would expect), when 
entered manually as a set of journal items.

When we modify the database and change the cash journal into a regular 
journal, everything works as expected. Of course, should a purchase 
return payment ever be received into the cash account, we would need to 
set up a separate Cash Return journal.

Judging from the code, the fact that bank and cash journals are defined 
as refund journals is completely unintentional. I have reported the 
issue here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/741863. It 
has been set to undecided.

What do the accounting experts think of having bank and cash journals 
defined as refund journals?

Regards,
Stefan.

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