Re: Proposal for some changes to the fields of AcctgTrans/AcctgTransEntry

Posted by Chirag Manocha on
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I totally agree on these changes. This will also helps in effective report
generations.

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Chirag Manocha
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> I would like to introduce the following changes to the entity definitions
> of AcctgTrans and AcctgTransEntry:
>
> 1) move the field AcctgTransEntry.currencyUomId to AcctgTrans.currencyUomId
> (but keeping the AcctgTransEntry.origCurrencyUomId as is now)
> 2) add the new field AcctgTrans.totalAmount: for a valid transaction the
> field (its absolute value) will have to match with absolute value of the sum
> of all credits (or debits); before a transaction it is posted, the system
> will check that AcctgTrans.totalAmount = sum of all credits
> (AcctgTransEntry) = sum of all debits (AcctgTransEntry)
>
> Main reasons for this:
> a) since the records in AcctgTrans actually represents the lines of a
> Journal, it makes sense to have in them all the fields required by journals
> (type/description of the transaction, date and amount)
> b) the user workflow will be improved: when the AcctgTrans is created
> (before the entries) the user already know the amount to be posted (and
> split into the different Ledgers)
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jacopo
>
>