I read through your requirements document. Thank you for submitting it. The list is long and though each item is described in detail they may require further analysis. As some of the topics might have dependencies on others, would you be willing to update the document with some kind of prioritization. That case we would not spend time on subjects that should be addressed after others have been. It also enables to keep focus and avoids having haphazzardly replies.
> Introduce Accounting ledger segmentation
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> Key: OFBIZ-5282
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5282> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: accounting
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Hans Bakker
> Fix For: SVN trunk
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> Attachments: Specification of Requirements.docx, ledgersegment-2013-12-24.patch, ledgersegmentOct18.patch
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> We have the possibility here to be able to introduce Apache OFBiz accounting in a large multi company organization. This organization is evaluating the several alternatives and after evaluation of OFBiz, came up with a function which OFBiz needs to have, in order to be considered.
> The user story:
> Although OFBiz accounting has the 'costcenter' function, it is not fine-grained enough, we need to be able to segment the ledger to a lower level that the GL accounts namely to the accounting transaction.. Further, all existing reports should have the facility to be able to select a segment of the ledger for either costing, profit or other purposes like special projects.
> The proposed user interface.
> We need at least at the order item level the ability to specify a parent-segment/segment and a percentage, if the percentange is not 100% the remainder to 100% should be assigned to another segment.
> These segments can be defined and assigned by the user to the order item upon entry. When the related invoice is created the segment(s) will be copied and can overridden before posting when these segment names will be copied to the accounting transaction.
> The proposed user reporting.
> All existing ledger reports will have the additional ability to select these segments and will only incorporate accounting transactions where this segment is specified.
> The proposed technical implementation.
> 1. add a new entity called LedgerSegment with fields: ledgerSegmentId, parentSegmentId, description
> 2. add another 3 similar entities: OrderItemSegment, InvoiceItemSegment, AcctTransSegment to make the relation to the LedgerSegment entity and to specify the percentage.
> 3. Change the order, invoice, accounting transaction screens and ledger report entity views to be able to use the segment names when available in the LedgerSegment entity
> As i said , please let me know what you think, this is a great opportunity for OFBiz accounting.
> Regards,
> Hans Bakker
> CEO AntWebsystems.com
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