Camptocamp published a new
module entitled ‘account_financial_report_Webkit‘ which provides the
following basic legal financial reports:
- General ledger
- Partner ledger
- Trial balance
- Partner balance
…and smaller -but handy- reports which are accessible from the Journal entries menu or from the invoices list menu:
- print screen of selected entries
- print screen of selected invoices
Where to get this module?
Why a new module on financial reports?
Camptocamp
Business Solutions team consists of technicians having both IT and/or
finance backgrounds; we consequently had all the required internal
competencies to develop such a module. Nevertheless, we also requested
the validation of our work by two chartered accountants, both in France
and in Switzerland.
In addition, we really have invested the necessary time to get reports with the following characteristics:
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Reliable: complex use cases tested over several fiscal years (closed or unclosed), partially paid invoices, multi-currency…
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Fast:
14min for 100′000 entry lines / 2′143 pages in pdf. This performance
is reached with a simple PC (dual core; 4Gb RAM); getting the same
report from a server is even better. We added that no extra dedicated
server was necessary; a simple Webkit library (called ‘wkhtmltopdf’)
added!
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Generic: these reports can be used in any country by any business
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Durable: Camptocamp would really like to see these reports become the most used reports in OpenERP because:
- we have back-ported this module to v5
- we will maintain these reports for all future OpenERP versions…unless
OpenERP accept to use them as standard financial reports, which would be
even better of course 
A final question: why use Webkit?
At
Camptocamp, we really do believe that Webkit is the best possible
render engine for OpenERP for many reasons including these ones:
- It is Open Source
- It is already in the core of OpenERP
- It is used with success by well-known Web browsers such as Safari or Chrome
- it gives much more possibilities than RML: column auto-scaling, WYSIWYG, inheritance from others reports…
- it gives better performance without adding extra servers but a simple library.
General ledger
What can I now select from the wizard?
Tab 1 (click on the image to enlarge):
Tab 2 (click on the image to enlarge):
What does it look like?
Please click on the image to enlarge
What are the added functionalities?
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Filter by account:
no need to go to the ‘Chart of account’ menu any longer. On top, you
have the possibility to filter by view account, the report will then
print all children accounts; hence, you can easily select only all
P&L accounts at once.
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Only usefull accounts are listed:
the report will now print only accounts with movements OR with a
balance > 0. No more endless reports with accounts without data or
with missing account because they were not used during the current
fiscal year; now reports include accounts with a balance to carry
forward (consequently, the field ‘display account’ is hidden on the
wizard).
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Calculated opening balance:
if you have not created your opening entries yet, the report will
simply calculate the opening balance for you (it remains important to
post opening entries if you do not want to loose performance over the
years).
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You can filter, for example from 02/2011 to 06/2011 with an opening
balance that will include not only previous years data but also data
from the beginning of the fiscal year until the start period of your
filter; so you will always match with your trial balance.
Note that no opening balance will be calculated when using the filter by date (correct balances are based on periods only).
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Account centralization:
thanks to a new check-box in account set-up form, you have the
possibility to centralize any accounts you like (for instance, you do
not want to see all entries posted under the account ‘VAT on sales’);
you will only see aggregated amounts by periods. This option can save
hundreds of useless pages. See the screen shot below (click on the
picture to enlarge):
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Layout improvement: with
a better design and to ease your analysis, reports now show new
columns such as Cumulative balances, Reconcile code, User name added on
foot page (+ date, time, page), Counterpart accounts displayed for
each transaction (3 accounts max.).
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Better wizard ergonomics:
important information at the top, filters in the middle, options at
the bottom, more specific filtering on a different tab. No more unique
wizard layout for all financial reports (ex: we have removed the
journal tab which was useless for the GL report).
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Better rendering technology:
Webkit (used by Web browsers such as Safari or Chrome) allows an
intelligent scalability of column size, WYSIWYG, and better
performance.
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OpenERP reports existing functionalities remaining:
- Filter on Chart of account (if you use several)
- Filters on period or date (improved with opening balance)
- Printing options: possibility to add currencies columns (improved with cumulative balance)
Partner ledger
What can I now select on the wizard?
1st Tab (click on the image to enlarge):
2nd Tab (click on the image to enlarge):
What does it look like?
Please click on the image to enlarge
What are the added functionalities?
This report is, if you look closer, a TRIPLE report :
- You can only print unreconciled entries (see ‘print open invoices list’ below)
- You can make forecast to a later date (see ‘report date’ below)
- You can simply print all entries
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Filter by partner: now possible
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Print open invoices list:
at any date in the past; possibility to print only unreconciled
transactions at any date in the past (thanks to the brand-new field:
last_rec_date which calculated the last move line reconciled date).
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Subtotals by accounts:
now you can see accounts then Partner with subtotals for each account,
allowing you to check your data with trial balance and partner balance
for instance. Also, accounts are ordered in the same way than in the
Chart of account.
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Layout improvement:
better design, column ‘period’ added, reconciliation code, cumulative
balances, user name added on foot page (+ date, time, page)…
* Note
that if you print the report ‘excluding reconciled entries’, the opening
balance will be decreased by the previous year reconciled entries
(ordered); no doing so will lead to have an ending balance that does not
match the trial balance (or partner balance).
* Note that no opening balance will be calculated when using the filter by date (correct balances are based on period only).
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Report date:
a new field called ‘report date’ in the wizard gives now the
possibility to print open invoices as if you were positioning yourself
at a later date. Example: you can print 2011 open invoices considered
as open on the 31/03/2012. This financial tool (which is unfortunately
not that often provided) is usually used for the closing process
(example: to estimate your provision on receivables).
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Only useful accounts/partners listed: the report will now print only account / partner ‘with movements OR with a balance not null’.
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Better wizard ergonomics: (similar approach to GL report)
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Better rendering technology: (see comments for GL report)
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OpenERP reports existing functionalities remaining:
- Filter by type of partner (receivables, payables or both)
- Filter on Chart of account (if you use several)
- Filters on period or date
- Printing options: possibility to add currencies columns (improved)
This
module is already providing users with the two main (and complex)
reports. We are currently developing the other ones…Our target is to
develop all reports by the end of October 2011. Be patient and please
send us you feedback (openerp@camptocamp.com)!
For Camptocamp,
Frédéric Clementi
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