[OFBiz] Dev - User configuration of ChartOfAccounts.

[Adrian Crum]

The Data Model Resource Book lists five GL account types. All of the 
accounting systems I've worked with had at least those five. I don't see 
how you can get everything to expand from two account types.


bjfree at free-man.net wrote:
> till I saw the other emails. thought no one else was putting energy into
> this.
> 
> to allow the most flexibility the model allows, I have a configuration page
> that can be used for initialization and was as modification of the Numbering
> and/or text display of the GL accounts.
> 
> I am not talking about how the db stores or manipulates the data, but how
> the user wants the data displayed.
> 
> here is my logic:
> 1) there are two base GL accounts
>    	Assets 
> 	Liabilities
> 2) everything expands from these.
> 3) these can be expressed as text and/or numbers. 
> 4) the numbers should be configurable by the user.
> 5) the expansion of these two should be parent/child relationships.
> 6) you need a configurable separator for the text presentation. like
> Assets:Cash Accounts:Pett cash
> 7) need a configurable separator for the GL Numbers, like "-"
> 8) an configuration screen needs to allow the user to Identify the depth for
> the parent/child and the number places for each.  so lets say Assets are
> assigned then number 1 and Liabilities are assigned 5. to tell the software
> how to handle this a configuration of number places are assigned
> Assets/Liabilities  =3  so now the system know that any number from 1 to 199
> or 5 to 599 are Assets/Liabilities.
> 
> 9) if a depth of 3, using the example of Assets:Cash Accounts:Pett, then the
> number places will default to 3 but can be modified down or up. So the
> example number would be 100-001-001
> 
> 10 the last configuration if the placement of the profit centers. some like
> them as the parent to the GL numbers. others like them as a child some level
> of the GL numbers.
> Once the schema for the GL numbers is laid out a number position is defined
> for the profit center and the number places. number places would normally be
> 1 for up to 9 profit centers.
> 11) one of the profits centers would have the attribute Company which would
> be the Corporate headquarters.
> 
> All of this would be stored in an XML for pages that display to the user, to
> use.
> 
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