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Re: Year-end closing

 

What about cut-off entries ?

frederic


2011/5/11 Bogdan Stanciu <bogdanovidiu.stanciu@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Thank you very much for your detailed message!
>
>
> On 11. 05. 11 12:02, Borja LS wrote:
>
> In Spain the process is similar: We do a P&L regularization, and afterwards
> we 'bring forward' the balances to the next year.
>
> About 'how we do it'... as Davide mentioned the Spanish localization has
> it's own "fiscal year closing" wizard (as OpenERP default wizard just
> creates 1 move, it does't perform the regularization nor the balance-to-0
> steps, so it is not valid for us).
>
>    - We use 3 special periods:
>     - Regularization period (31th Dec of year X; usually named PG*YY*where
>       *YY* is the year)
>        - Closing period (31th Dec of year X; named C*YY*)
>       - Opening period (1st Jan of year X; named A*YY*)
>
>  why do you need two closing periods?
>
>
>     - The fiscal year closing wizard performs this steps:
>       - Checks the integrity of the accounting:
>          - Checks that there are no unconfirmed moves in the year to be
>          closed.
>          - Checks that the year of the fiscal period and the year of the
>          move date match for every move.
>           - Checks that all the moves are really balanced.
>
>  checks are really missing from the standard version... very useful!
>
>
>      - Creates a P&L regularization move (though it preselects the
>       expected accounts from the Spanish chart of accounts [src: 6, 7; dest: 129],
>       it's completely configurable [it's just a map of accounts]).
>       - Creates a net equity P&L regularization move if needed (again the
>       accounts are detected and preselected but it's configurable).
>       - Creates the closing move (preselects the accounts 1*, 2*, 3*, 4*,
>       5*; but again the list of accounts is configurable)
>       - Creates the opening move (as the inverse of the closing one).
>       - Closes (locks) all the periods of the last fiscal year, and the
>       fiscal year itself.
>    - The wizard is:
>       - Preconfigured (tries to detect the fiscal years, journals,
>       periods, dates and accounts) so the user just need to do a few clics; but at
>       the same time it is totally configurable (you can configure the
>       journal/period/dates for the created moves, and set the maps of accounts for
>       the regularization steps, and the list of accounts for the closing step).
>       - Able to undo all those steps with just one click (also you can
>       also run/undo a step at a time; btw, the 'wizard' it's not an osv_memory,
>       but a real osv).
>       - Protected against the dreaded OpenERP client timeouts. If the
>       process takes more than 20 seconds a progress dialog is shown allowing to
>       keep waiting or continuing in the background :)
>
>
> Some images:
>
>
> Hope this gives you ideas :)
>
> sure it does! excellent work! thank you!
>
>  --
> Borja López Soilánborja@xxxxxxx
>
>
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