[Erp5-dev] source/destination conversion and transaction view in accounting module

[Łukasz Nowak]

Hello,

On 2007-09-28, 17:09:09
Jérome Perrin <jerome at nexedi.com> wrote:

> > Let's say I've got some invoices:
> > 
> > SIT-1 in currency EUR, converted to PLN, confirmed, value 1000 PLN
> > SIT-2 in currency EUR, not converted to PLN, confirmed 800 EUR
> > 
> > I set up PLN currency in site preferences.
> 
> This has no other effect than setting the resource automatically on 
> transaction you create (using init script). Some "bad code" may
> remain assuming that currency is the one from preference, but the
> accounting currency is set on the organisation (with 'price_currency'
> category).

Ok - good to know.

> > In accounting module view both invoices are showed (same applies to
> > Organisation - Transactions). But it is making wrong results -
> > system is adding 800 EUR to 1000 PLN and shows 1800 PLN.
> 
> If you don't set the converted value ('asset price' in ERP5 technical 
> vocabulary),  the system assumes that the converted value is equal to 
> the non converted value ('quantity'). Accounting reports in "local" 
> currency uses asset price.

Understood.

> So this default is fine for most of the cases where the asset price
> is the quantity, because the resource on the transaction is the
> accounting currency for the organisation.
> But there are no constraint to force setting the asset price on a
> side when resource is different from accounting currency on this
> side. It's probably a bug.

Shall I provide unit test to confirm it is a bug? It's quite hard for
me, because I'm still not sure, what *shall* happens.

Regards,
Luke

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