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

Posted by David E. Jones-2 on
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Sorry for the delay in taking a look at this... I'll second (or fifth?) other in saying that this looks like a fine idea.

-David


On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Jacopo Cappellato 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
>