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Financial Management 
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Contents 
1 Introduction 
2 Period End Close to Financial Report 
2.1 Configuration 
2.1.1 Basic Configuration 
2.1.1.1 Scenario 1 and 2 ­Localization 
Pack or Generic CoA module installed 
2.1.1.2 Scenario 3 ­Localization 
Pack and Generic CoA do not installed 
2.2 Advanced Configuration 
2.3 Execution 
2.3.1 Opening of the accounting 
2.3.2 Review of the accounting transactions 
2.3.3 Creation of accounting transactions and G/L item payments 
2.3.4 Printing of the Trial Balance to check that "Debit=Credit 
2.3.5 Adjustments required prior to the income calculation 
2.3.6 Adjustments required prior to the closing of the accounting year 
2.3.7 The printing of the preliminary Income Statement and Balance Sheet 
2.3.8 The closing of the fiscal year 
2.3.9 The printing of the final "Income Statement" and "Balance Sheet" 
3 Payables and Receivables Management 
3.1 Configuration 
3.2 Execution 
3.2.1 Creation of the orders/invoices to be paid 
3.2.2 Creation of payments do not related to orders/invoices 
3.2.3 Review of the status of the pending payments 
3.2.4 Receipt of the customer's payments 
3.2.5 Payment of the supplier's invoices 
3.2.6 Recording of the financial account transactions 
3.2.7 Reconciliation of the financial account transactions 
4 Asset Acquisition to Dispose 
5 Relationship with other areas 
6 Application Menu 
6.1 Receivables and Payables 
6.1.1 Transactions 
6.1.2 Analysis Tools 
6.1.3 Setup 
6.2 Accounting 
6.2.1 Transactions 
6.2.2 Analysis Tools 
6.2.3 Setup 
6.3 Assets 
6.3.1 Analysis Tools 
7 Advanced 
Introduction 
Openbravo automatically generates an accounting representation of all the transactions within the enterprise that have an economic relevance. 
Accounting is the system of tracking the assets, the debts, the income and the expenses of a business. 
In Openbravo, most of the accounting entries are automatically created while posting documents such as: 
Goods Receipts and Purchase Invoices in the Procurement Management business area 
Goods Shipments and Sales Invoices in the Sales Management business area. 
Accounting entries do not directly related to documents managed within a given application area can be created and posted in a G/L Journal. For instance a provision 
for stock depreciation accounting entry. 
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There are three ways of accounting in Openbravo: 
To manually post each document by using the process button "Post". 
The process button "Post" can be found in the window used to create a given document. For instance a purchase invoice is created and therefore could be 
posted in the Purchase Invoice window. 
This button is shown for accounting users if the Attribute "ShowAcct" is visible for them. This configuration is enabled through a Preference. 
To manually post all the documents/transactions related to a given database table for instance the table "Invoices", by using the process GL posting 
by DB Tables 
or to automatically post accounting transactions of any type by scheduling the "Accounting Server Process" in the Process Request window. 
Accounting activities such as: 
creating and opening of the accounting periods 
entering and posting accounting transactions 
managing payables and receivables accounts as well as the asset depreciation 
reviewing and submitting financial and tax reports to the official authorities 
and closing the accounting year 
are performed within the Financial Management application area. 
Finally Openbravo has an integrated accounting system that combines general accounting and analytical accounting: 
General accounting aims to primary exploit dimensions such as "Account" (or "Subaccount" in Openbravo terms) 
Analytical accounting aims to exploit other dimensions such as "Cost Center" or "Campaign" to get a slightly different but also rich financial information. 
In other words, Openbravo allows to post transactions to the ledger which can include different dimensions: 
Those dimensions can be centrally maintained in the Client therefore are available to all the organizations within that Client. 
Moreover Organizations of that Client can also have additional dimensions configured separately in its General Ledger Configuration. 
Those dimensions are then available just for that Organization. 
On the other hand, those dimensions can not be centrally maintained in the Client but independently maintained in the Organization's General Ledger 
Configuration. 
This application area covers the Period End Close to Financial Report business flow and the Payables and Receivables Management business flow. 
Period End Close to Financial Report 
Period End Close to Financial Report business flow manages the open and close of periods. 
Configuration 
This section details the basic and not that basic accounting configuration needed prior to the execution of the "Period End Close to Financial Report" business flow. 
Basic Configuration 
There are 3 Openbravo accounting concepts which need to be explained before describing the basic accounting configuration: 
Fiscal Calendar. 
A fiscal calendar in Openbravo is the year and the periods, normally months, when financial transactions and journal entries are posted to the ledger. 
Account Tree 
An account tree is the way Openbravo captures the "Chart of Accounts" (CoA) of an Organization. 
The Chart of Accounts is a list of all the accounts used in an organization's general ledger. 
Accounts such as balance sheet accounts (assets, liabilities and owner's equity) and income statement accounts (revenues, expenses, gains and losses). 
It is important to remark that in Openbravo, the financial reports such as the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement are produced based upon the Chart of 
Accounts structure. 
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General Ledger configuration. 
The general ledger configuration captures the accounting rules to use while posting the organization's financial transactions to the ledger. Accounting rules 
such as the "Currency" and the "Chart of Accounts" among others. 
Having said that, the accounting configuration detailed in this section is the one required for legal entities with accounting, including the business units, because 
these organization types are the only ones which can have assigned: 
a Chart of Accounts 
a General Ledger configuration 
and a Fiscal Calendar 
Obviously these organization types allows posting transactions to the ledger. 
Rest of the Organization types behave as explained in the Initial Organization Setup and in the Organization articles. 
Very briefly: 
"Legal without accounting" organizations do not require accounting therefore do not require any basic neither advanced accounting configuration. 
"Generic" organizations however can have its own General Ledger configuration and Chart of Accounts but the accounting periods can not be opened and 
closed independently at its level. 
This type of organizations inherits the Fiscal Calendar of the "legal with accounting" organization they belong to. 
and finally "Organization" ones can have as well a general ledger configuration and a Chart of Accounts but with the aim of being shared among all the 
organizations underneath. 
This organization type can not have a fiscal calendar assigned and besides the transactions within it are not allowed. 
Additionally, some countries such as Spain or France require that a specific "Chart of Accounts" is used in the statutory books, therefore the authorities can 
see the same list of accounts and the same level of detail in the Income statement and in the Balance Sheet. 
For those cases Openbravo provides a "Localization Pack" which includes the Statutory Chart of Accounts such as the Spanish Localization Pack 
On the other hand, there are countries such as USA where a specific "Chart of Accounts" is not required. 
For those cases Openbravo provides a Generic Chart of Accounts module which includes a sample Chart of Accounts which can be modified as required. 
It is recommended to start from a sample chart of accounts like the generic one and evolve it for the organization's needs rather than starting from scratch. 
In­country 
taxes setup is another key element of the basic accounting configuration. 
There can be Localization Packs which include the setup of the taxes for the country while there can be others which do not include the setup of the taxes for the 
country. 
The Generic CoA module does not include any taxes setup. 
Having said all of that, there are three possible "accounting" scenarios: 
1. Openbravo environments with a Localization Pack installed, for instance the Spanish Localization Pack. 
A localization Pack which also includes the taxes setup for Spain. 
2. Openbravo environments with the Generic Chart of Accounts (CoA) installed, mainly in those countries where statutory CoA are not required. 
3. and Openbravo environments which do not have a Localization Pack installed neither the Generic Chart of Accounts module installed 
The basic accounting configuration is practically the same one for the tree scenarios above but the level of defaulted configuration provided by Openbravo. Obviously 
scenario 3 above requires an additional configuration effort. 
Finally, it is important to remark that the basic accounting configuration described here is obviously one part of the overall Business setup flow. 
Scenario 1 and 2 ­Localization 
Pack or Generic CoA module installed 
These two scenarios can be grouped as the basis of the accounting configuration required for both of them is the same. 
The configuration steps to follow are: 
To customize the defaulted "General Ledger configuration" as described in the General Ledger configuration maintenance article of the Quick Guide. 
To review and maintain the Chart of Accounts created by default as described also in the Chart of Accounts Maintenance article of the Quick Guide. 
Finally, it is also required to setup the "Balance Sheet" and the "Income Statement" as described also in the Quick Guide. 
It is important to remark that: 
If the Localization Pack includes the in­country 
taxes setup, the only configuration left to do is: 
to assign the corresponding Tax Categories to the products 
and to assign the corresponding Business Partner Tax category to the business partners of the Organization, 
otherwise review the last step of the scenario 3 below which describes how to create and setup the taxes. 
Scenario 3 ­Localization 
Pack and Generic CoA do not installed 
The enterprise in this scenario should follow below steps which implies an additional configuration effort: 
The creation, setup and maintenance of the Account Tree. 
The creation and setup of the General Ledger configuration. 
The setup of the "Balance Sheet" and the "Income Statement" in the Balance Sheet and P&L Structure Setup window 
The creation and setup of the "Taxes". 
This step implies to create and properly configure three taxes dimensions which are: 
The Tax Categories. Tax categories are related to products. When you transact with a product, the tax category is used to determine the rate which 
gets applied. 
Once created need to be linked to the Products. 
The Business Partner Tax Categories as there are some business partners who are treated differently from others according to established legal 
provisions. Business Partner Tax Categories are used to identify these business partners and to incorporate these differences into tax calculations. 
Once created need to be linked to the Customers and Vendors 
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And finally the Tax Rates which are the applicable rates for a tax category within the context of a document and its elements (business partner, 
product, locations). 
This scenario is covered in the corresponding articles of the User Guide. 
Additionally, all of the three scenarios above require anyway below additional accounting configuration: 
The creation of a Fiscal Calendar 
The creation of the Years of the calendar and the Periods of each year. 
The accounting periods of a year can follow the calendar year of January to December, or can differ. 
The opening of the accounting periods is the Open/Close Period Control window. 
Openbravo allows to open all the periods of a year at once or to open the first period of a year and later on the next/s, or even to open first a given set of 
periods. 
If a period is not open it is not possible to make any journal entry within that period and get it posted. 
To allow the accounting users to "Post"/"Unpost" transactions as well as to view and edit the ledger accounts contained in the "Accounting" tabs such as the 
Accounting tab in the product window. 
Above is configured by setting for those user/s the Preference "ShowAcct" to "Yes". 
To schedule the Accounting Server Process in case it is desire that Openbravo searches and posts the transactions in status "Complete" suitable to be 
posted. 
Advanced Configuration 
As already mentioned there is an additional accounting configuration which might be needed regardless of whether a localization pack is installed or not. 
The creation of the G/L Items. 
A G/L item is an “alias” used in place of a sub­account 
number. A G/L Item can be used to post transactions related to invoices and payments. G/L items are 
used to account for financial obligations that are not ordinarily invoiced and other special procurement items which are invoiced but for which no ordinary 
master data (such as a Product) are maintained. 
As a side note Openbravo contains pre­seeded 
Document Types: 
Each document type in Openbravo refers to a business transaction such as a purchase invoice or a sales order. 
The document types allow you to create specific printed formats for business documents and allow you to define sequence numbers for their use. 
Execution 
Overall the Period End Close to Financial Report business flow can be split into the following steps once the accounting period has been opened: 
the opening of the accounting 
the review of the accounting transactions 
the creation of accounting transactions and G/L item payments 
the printing of the Trial Balance 
the adjustments required prior to the income calculation 
the adjustments require prior to the closing of the accounting year 
the printing of the preliminary Income Statement and Balance Sheet 
the closing of the accounting year 
and the printing of the final Income Statement and Balance Sheet 
Opening of the accounting 
This very first step implies to initialize the balance of the ledger accounts and the financial accounts or banks. The way to do that in Openbravo is: 
The ledger accounts balance can be initialized by using a G/L Journal set us "Opening", therefore that ledger entry is set as the "Opening Ledger Entry". 
A journal line can be created for each account and its opening balance, once done the G/L Journal will validate that the Total Debit of all the entries equals to 
the Total Credit. 
The financial accounts balance can be initialized in the Financial Account window, in the "Initial Balance" field, therefore the corresponding financial account/s 
or banks needs to be previously created. 
To learn more about this topic, please review the How to initialize financial balances in Openbravo article. 
Review of the accounting transactions 
As already mentioned in Openbravo most of the accounting entries are automatically created while posting documents such as a purchase invoice or a sales invoice. 
For instance the accounting of a purchase invoice will take: 
the expense account setup for the product being purchased in the Accounting tab of the "Product" window 
the vendor liability account setup for the vendor in the Vendor Accounting tab of the "Business Partner" window 
and the tax credit account setup in the Accounting tab of the "Tax Rate" window. 
Openbravo allows to review and correct if needed the accounting entries of transactional documents such as the Invoices. 
Same way Openbravo allows to unpost wrongly posted transactional documents one by one to get them corrected and properly posted once more. 
The way to do that is explained in the Document­Post/ 
Unpost article of the Common Concepts and Processes section. 
Additionally, the Accounting Transactions Details report shows all the transactions posted in the ledger with all the details and the Not Posted Transactions report 
shows the transactions which need to be accounted but have not been accounted yet. 
Finally Openbravo allows to massively fix accounting errors if any, for instance a vendor liability account wrongly assigned to a vendor or to a set of vendors. 
The way to do that is: 
run the Reset Accounting process for the table being affected for instance the "C_Invoice" table (Purchase Invoice and Sales Invoice table). 
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correct the accounting configuration 
get the transactions posted once again by using the GL Posting by DB Tables feature. 
This feature performs a massive posting of all the accounting or just the accounting of a table for instance the "C_Invoice" table (Purchase Invoice and Sales 
Invoice table). 
Creation of accounting transactions and G/L item payments 
As already mentioned accounting entries do not related to documents managed within a given application area can be created and post to the ledger by using a G/L 
Journal. 
A G/L Journal can also be used to make and/or receive payments do not related to orders/invoices but to G/L items. 
G/L items payments are also managed within the Payables and Receivables management area. 
Printing of the Trial Balance to check that "Debit=Credit 
The Trial Balance is a list indicating the balances of every single general ledger account at a given point in time. 
The purpose of the trial balance is to check that debits are equal to credits. If debits do not equal credits that means that an erroneous journal entry must have been 
posted. 
Openbravo does not allow to post journal entries which do not balance. A G/L Journal can only be posted if Debit equals Credit, however there could be situations 
where while posting an invoice rounding differences drive that debit do not exactly equal credit. In this situations the difference is posted in a specific suspense 
account. Suspense accounts are configured in the General Ledger configuration. 
Adjustments required prior to the income calculation 
An organization's income statement shows the organization's financial performance over a period of time (usually one year) as the difference between: 
the organization's revenue 
and the organization's expenses 
An Income Statement can look like: 
In order to get an accurate income calculation, there are some adjustments required to be done first: 
the organization needs to review the revenues and the expenses to be sure that the ones accounted within the period which is going to be closed are the 
ones which should be accounted regardless whether they are paid or not. This kind of adjustment is not required if the organization follows the accrual 
method of accounting that is Openbravo method of accounting. 
Under the accrual method of accounting, revenue is recorded as soon as services are provided or goods are delivered and therefore invoiced, regardless of 
when cash is received. 
Same way, expenses are recognize as soon as the company receives goods or services and therefore get invoiced, regardless of when it actually pays for 
them. 
the organization needs to calculate the Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS). The CoGS is the amount that the company paid for the goods that it sold over the 
course of the period. This calculation depends on the method of keeping track of inventory. There are two primary methods, the perpetual method and the 
periodic method: 
the perpetual method is used by any business that keeps real­time 
information on inventory levels and that tracks inventory on an item­by­item 
basis. 
This method allows very accurate recordkeeping as to the Cost of Goods Sold which is the sum of the cost of all the items sold over the period. 
the periodic method is used by any business that count inventory at regular intervals. 
When using this method Cost of Goods Sold is calculated using the following equation: 
(Beginning Inventory + Inventory purchases ­Ending 
Inventory = Cost of Goods Sold) 
Besides if a business is dealing with changing per­unit 
inventory costs, a specific method of calculating the CoGS needs to be used, that could either 
be FIFO, LIFO or Average Cost. 
Finally an income statement can separate "Operating Expenses" such as salaries and rent from "Non­Operating 
Expenses" such as a lawsuit. 
Operating Expenses are the expenses related to the normal operation of the business and are likely to be incurred in future periods as well. 
This way allows the calculation of the "Operating Income" as the difference between the "Gross Profit" and the "Total Operating Expenses". 
Adjustments required prior to the closing of the accounting year 
Other adjustments required can be : 
Long term amounts must be reclassified to short term amounts. The long term amount reclassified to short term amount is the amount due in the next 
year. 
This process is usually done for long term doubts for instance. In Openbravo this kind of transactions can be manually created by using a GL Journal. 
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Taxes such as the VAT needs to be settled periodically. 
The How to Manage VAT settlement and payment article explains how to do that in Openbravo. 
It is important to remark that VAT accounts balance has to be equal to 0 in the last period of the year, as either the organization has to pay to the tax 
authorities or the other way around. 
Assets depreciation needs to be properly accounted within the period being closed as this adjustment will affect : 
the income statement as depreciation is an expense 
and the debit side of the balance sheet as assets will be decreased by the depreciation amount of the period 
The printing of the preliminary Income Statement and Balance Sheet 
Once configured, Openbravo allows to get and print the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet whenever it is required as the structure of these reports is based 
on the chart of accounts tree. 
It is very useful to print these financial reports prior to the closing of the year as it allows to get a sense of whether there are some missing adjustments required to be 
done prior to the closing of the year or not. 
During the accounting cycle there are other reports which can also be printed: 
the General Ledger Report list all the debits entries and all the credits entries of every "T­Account" 
within a given period of time 
the Journal Entries Report lists in a chronological order every journal entry posted in the ledger 
The closing of the fiscal year 
Openbravo allows to perform below detailed checks prior to the closing of the fiscal year: 
run the Not Posted Transaction report to verify that there are no transactions and/or documents in status "Complete" do not posted yet. 
check that there are no documents still having a "Draft" status, specially those ones which require to be accounted. 
unscheduled the Accounting Server Process therefore an stable scene can be assured. 
Check that the Financial Account/s current balance in Openbravo and compare it with the information provided by the banks. It is possible to adjust financial 
account balance by using G/L Items or how to transfer funds between financial accounts. 
Before running the close year process the accounting periods can be closed not to allow any further posting within those periods, but the "13th period". 
The "13th period" is an "adjustment period" which can be used to post the adjustments required to the ledger through G/L Journals prior closing the year. 
The ”Close Year” process can be executed from the End Year Close window. 
The end­year 
close process can be executed for "Legal with Accounting" organization types as that organization's type have a "Fiscal Calendar" and "General 
Ledger" configured. 
There is a check­box 
in the General Accounts tab of the "General Ledger Configuration" window which drives how the end­year 
closing outcome is going to be for the 
organizations' General Ledger. 
That check­box 
is named "Reverse Permanent Account Balances" 
if it is checked the closing of the year process includes an entry to reverse the balance sheet accounts besides the P&L closing entry 
if it does not check the closing of the year process includes just the P&L closing entry 
Openbravo uses the adjustment period (i.e. December 31st) for accounting the closing transactions if any, and the next period's first date (i.e. January 1st) for 
accounting the opening transactions if any. 
To learn more about this process, visit the End Year Close window. 
The printing of the final "Income Statement" and "Balance Sheet" 
Once a year has been closed every financial report contains the corresponding closing and opening transactions: 
the Balance Sheet will show the financial situation of the organization as of the end of the accounting period closed. 
Openbravo allows to get a two columns balance sheet: 
One column shows the balances as of the end of the most recent accounting period 
and the other column shows the balances as of the prior period end. 
This balance allows to see how the financial position of the organization has changed over time. 
the Income Statement will show the organization performance over the year closed 
And besides: 
the General ledger Journal allows to show for a given accounting period below entries posted by the "Close Year" process: 
the opening balance entry 
the closing balance entry 
and the P&L closing entry 
Payables and Receivables Management 
Payables and Receivables Management addresses customer collections and supplier payments as well as other payments do not related to invoices but to orders 
(prepayments) or G/L Items. 
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Configuration 
The following setup needs to be done before performing the process: 
Payables and Receivables Document Types. 
Payment Methods. 
Financial Accounts. 
Business Partners to use above configured Payment Methods and a Financial Accounts. 
Note: It is not required to perform any additional setup for the Payables and Receivables Management business process if Food & Beverage (F&B) sample client 
shipped with Openbravo by default is going to be used to explore it. The sample data set already contains the roles, warehouses, business partners, products and 
prices pre­configured. 
Execution 
Overall the Payables and Receivables Management business process can be split into the following steps: 
the creation of the orders and invoices to be paid 
the creation of payments do not related to orders/invoices 
the review of the status of the pending payments 
the receipt of the payments made by the customers 
the payment of the supplier's invoices 
the recording of the financial account transactions 
and the reconciliation of the financial account transactions 
Creation of the orders/invoices to be paid 
In the Procure to Pay and Order to Cash business process we have seen how the orders and invoices have been generated. 
Every time that a Purchase or Sales Order is booked or a Purchase or Sales Invoice is completed a Payment Plan is created for that Order / Invoice. 
A payment plan contains the payment amount/s expected for the document and its fulfillment. At the same time the invoice Payment Monitor section gets activated 
that allows to track the invoice payment status directly from the invoice window. 
Creation of payments do not related to orders/invoices 
In the Period End Close to Financial Report business process we have seen how a payment can be made or received by using a GL Journal therefore it is not related 
to an order/invoice but to a G/L Item. 
A G/L Item payment created in a G/L Journals implies: 
the creation of a Payment Made if the payment information is entered in the "Credit" line of the G/L Journal. 
The status of this payment would either be "Payment Made" or "Awaiting Execution" or "Withdrawn not Cleared" depending on the configuration of the 
payment method used and linked to the financial account where the money is taken from. 
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or the creation of a Payment Received if the payment information is entered in the "Debit" line of the G/L Journal. 
The status of this payment would either be "Payment Received" or "Awaiting Execution" or "Deposited not Cleared" depending on the configuration of the 
payment method used and linked to the financial account where the money is going to be deposited in. 
Review of the status of the pending payments 
On a periodic basis the Finance Staff reviews the status of the payments pending to be collected / to be paid by looking: 
At the Payment Report and filtering by the status Awaiting Payment which means that no payment has been either received or made against the order or 
invoice yet. 
Overdue check­box 
allows to narrow down the search and to show only overdue payments. 
Payment Type displays Receivables, Payables or both. 
In addition to this Sales and Purchase Invoice windows in grid view are available to search open invoices by setting Payment Complete field to No. 
Receipt of the customer's payments 
When a Payment is Received the Finance staff can register it in different ways: 
In the Payment In window by selecting the Sales Invoices and/or Orders payment is received against. 
Note. Many businesses do not wish to extend credit to specific customers and may therefore have a payment term that requires payment against an 
order. In effect this is a prepayment of an invoice. Later when an invoice is created from an order that already has a payment received against it the 
invoice automatically inherits the payment received against the order. 
Using the Add Payment button directly within the corresponding Sales Invoice. It can be when the user has received a single payment for a particular 
invoice and prefers to browse for that invoice in order to allocate the payment to it. 
It is also possible to automate receiving of a payment on completion of a Sales Invoice through the configuration of the Payment Method. 
If collection does not happen on time: 
The Expected Date of the Payment Plan can be modified, preventing the debt for being overdue. 
The Amount due of the Payment Plan can be: 
split in two or more amounts due at a later expected date. 
or grouped in just one amount due at a later expected date. 
The outstanding balance for a customer can be totally or partially written off. 
Payment of the supplier's invoices 
There are 3 ways to pay vendor bills: 
Using the Payment Proposal process. This process supports the automatic payment of a large number of invoices based on the due dates of the lines of the 
Payment Plan associated with the open Purchase Invoices. The finance staff can request a proposal of all invoices to be paid based on a number of criteria, 
review that proposal, and then automatically make the payment. 
In the Payment Out window by selecting the Purchase Invoices and/or Orders payment is made against. 
Note. Many businesses do not have credit extended to them and may therefore be required to make a payment against a purchase order. In effect 
this is a prepayment of a purchase invoice. Later when an invoice is created from an order that already has a payment made against it the invoice 
automatically inherits the payment made against the order. 
Using the Add Payment button directly within the corresponding Purchase Invoice. It can be when the user needs to make a single payment for a particular 
invoice and prefers to browse for that invoice in order to allocate the payment to it. 
It is also possible to automate making of a payment on completion of a Purchase Invoice through the configuration of the Payment Method. 
Recording of the financial account transactions 
Finance Staff records Withdrawals and Deposits as transactions in the Financial Account window by pressing the Add Transaction button and selecting either the 
received or made payments. 
This step in the process can also be completely automated through the configuration of the Payment Method so that the payments are automatically withdrawn or 
deposited when they are completed. 
Reconciliation of the financial account transactions 
Finance Staff receives a bank statement (a paper or electronic bank statement) and reconciles the transactions in the Financial Account marked as Deposited / 
Withdrawn not Cleared with the actual transactions on the bank statement. This process can be done 
Manually (one by one reconciling the transactions in the Openbravo Financial Account with the bank statement lines) by using the Reconcile button of the 
Financial Account window. 
Automatically by Importing Statement first and then Matching Statement using a matching algorithm. 
Additionally, any transactions (receipts and payments) shown on the bank statement and not reflected in the Financial Account should also be entered into 
Openbravo to get them reconciled. 
Finally Finance Staff prints the Reconciliation reports (Reconciliation Details, Reconciliations Summary) that explain any difference in the end balance shown for 
the Financial Account in Openbravo and the end balance shown on the bank statement. 
Asset Acquisition to Dispose 
Manages global assets life cycle from acquisition to disposition, including depreciation and other write­downs. 
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Note: This business flow is not yet documented in the new User Guide. Meanwhile we progress on it please use following Asset_Acquisition_to_Dispose document. 
Relationship with other areas 
Financial Management has a connection with other application areas, as there are documents or transactions in those areas which can be posted and therefore be 
part of a ledger journal to be finally managed within the Financial Management application area. 
Procurement Management as Purchase Invoices are posted there and Goods Shipments as well as Supplier's Payments or Payments Out can be posted 
there. 
Sales Management as Sales Invoices are posted there and Goods Shipment as well as customers's Payments or Payments In can be posted there. 
Warehouse Management as Physical Inventory is posted there. 
Production Management as for the processing of the Work Effort raw materials are consumed and posted there at cost price as well as Products 
manufactured. 
Application Menu 
Please find below detailed description of all windows and reports of the Financial Management application area split into three sub­areas: 
Receivables and Payables 
Accounting 
and Assets 
Receivables and Payables 
Transactions 
Purchase Invoice Payment Plan 
Payment Out 
Payment Proposal 
Sales Invoice Payment Plan 
Payment In 
Financial Account 
Payment Execution 
Tax Payment 
Doubtful Debt 
Doubtful Debt Run 
Analysis Tools 
Payment Report 
Payment Run 
Setup 
Tax Register Type 
Payment Method 
Doubtful Debt Method 
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Financial management openbravo

  • 1. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki Log in / create account Openbravo.com Partner Portal Issues Blogs Forge Exchange University Downloads View source | Discuss this page | Page history | Printable version Financial Management This article is protected against manual editing because it is automatically generated from Openbravo meta­data. Learn more about writing and translating such documents. Back to User Guide Contents 1 Introduction 2 Period End Close to Financial Report 2.1 Configuration 2.1.1 Basic Configuration 2.1.1.1 Scenario 1 and 2 ­Localization Pack or Generic CoA module installed 2.1.1.2 Scenario 3 ­Localization Pack and Generic CoA do not installed 2.2 Advanced Configuration 2.3 Execution 2.3.1 Opening of the accounting 2.3.2 Review of the accounting transactions 2.3.3 Creation of accounting transactions and G/L item payments 2.3.4 Printing of the Trial Balance to check that "Debit=Credit 2.3.5 Adjustments required prior to the income calculation 2.3.6 Adjustments required prior to the closing of the accounting year 2.3.7 The printing of the preliminary Income Statement and Balance Sheet 2.3.8 The closing of the fiscal year 2.3.9 The printing of the final "Income Statement" and "Balance Sheet" 3 Payables and Receivables Management 3.1 Configuration 3.2 Execution 3.2.1 Creation of the orders/invoices to be paid 3.2.2 Creation of payments do not related to orders/invoices 3.2.3 Review of the status of the pending payments 3.2.4 Receipt of the customer's payments 3.2.5 Payment of the supplier's invoices 3.2.6 Recording of the financial account transactions 3.2.7 Reconciliation of the financial account transactions 4 Asset Acquisition to Dispose 5 Relationship with other areas 6 Application Menu 6.1 Receivables and Payables 6.1.1 Transactions 6.1.2 Analysis Tools 6.1.3 Setup 6.2 Accounting 6.2.1 Transactions 6.2.2 Analysis Tools 6.2.3 Setup 6.3 Assets 6.3.1 Analysis Tools 7 Advanced Introduction Openbravo automatically generates an accounting representation of all the transactions within the enterprise that have an economic relevance. Accounting is the system of tracking the assets, the debts, the income and the expenses of a business. In Openbravo, most of the accounting entries are automatically created while posting documents such as: Goods Receipts and Purchase Invoices in the Procurement Management business area Goods Shipments and Sales Invoices in the Sales Management business area. Accounting entries do not directly related to documents managed within a given application area can be created and posted in a G/L Journal. For instance a provision for stock depreciation accounting entry. http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 1/10
  • 2. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki There are three ways of accounting in Openbravo: To manually post each document by using the process button "Post". The process button "Post" can be found in the window used to create a given document. For instance a purchase invoice is created and therefore could be posted in the Purchase Invoice window. This button is shown for accounting users if the Attribute "ShowAcct" is visible for them. This configuration is enabled through a Preference. To manually post all the documents/transactions related to a given database table for instance the table "Invoices", by using the process GL posting by DB Tables or to automatically post accounting transactions of any type by scheduling the "Accounting Server Process" in the Process Request window. Accounting activities such as: creating and opening of the accounting periods entering and posting accounting transactions managing payables and receivables accounts as well as the asset depreciation reviewing and submitting financial and tax reports to the official authorities and closing the accounting year are performed within the Financial Management application area. Finally Openbravo has an integrated accounting system that combines general accounting and analytical accounting: General accounting aims to primary exploit dimensions such as "Account" (or "Subaccount" in Openbravo terms) Analytical accounting aims to exploit other dimensions such as "Cost Center" or "Campaign" to get a slightly different but also rich financial information. In other words, Openbravo allows to post transactions to the ledger which can include different dimensions: Those dimensions can be centrally maintained in the Client therefore are available to all the organizations within that Client. Moreover Organizations of that Client can also have additional dimensions configured separately in its General Ledger Configuration. Those dimensions are then available just for that Organization. On the other hand, those dimensions can not be centrally maintained in the Client but independently maintained in the Organization's General Ledger Configuration. This application area covers the Period End Close to Financial Report business flow and the Payables and Receivables Management business flow. Period End Close to Financial Report Period End Close to Financial Report business flow manages the open and close of periods. Configuration This section details the basic and not that basic accounting configuration needed prior to the execution of the "Period End Close to Financial Report" business flow. Basic Configuration There are 3 Openbravo accounting concepts which need to be explained before describing the basic accounting configuration: Fiscal Calendar. A fiscal calendar in Openbravo is the year and the periods, normally months, when financial transactions and journal entries are posted to the ledger. Account Tree An account tree is the way Openbravo captures the "Chart of Accounts" (CoA) of an Organization. The Chart of Accounts is a list of all the accounts used in an organization's general ledger. Accounts such as balance sheet accounts (assets, liabilities and owner's equity) and income statement accounts (revenues, expenses, gains and losses). It is important to remark that in Openbravo, the financial reports such as the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement are produced based upon the Chart of Accounts structure. http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 2/10
  • 3. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki General Ledger configuration. The general ledger configuration captures the accounting rules to use while posting the organization's financial transactions to the ledger. Accounting rules such as the "Currency" and the "Chart of Accounts" among others. Having said that, the accounting configuration detailed in this section is the one required for legal entities with accounting, including the business units, because these organization types are the only ones which can have assigned: a Chart of Accounts a General Ledger configuration and a Fiscal Calendar Obviously these organization types allows posting transactions to the ledger. Rest of the Organization types behave as explained in the Initial Organization Setup and in the Organization articles. Very briefly: "Legal without accounting" organizations do not require accounting therefore do not require any basic neither advanced accounting configuration. "Generic" organizations however can have its own General Ledger configuration and Chart of Accounts but the accounting periods can not be opened and closed independently at its level. This type of organizations inherits the Fiscal Calendar of the "legal with accounting" organization they belong to. and finally "Organization" ones can have as well a general ledger configuration and a Chart of Accounts but with the aim of being shared among all the organizations underneath. This organization type can not have a fiscal calendar assigned and besides the transactions within it are not allowed. Additionally, some countries such as Spain or France require that a specific "Chart of Accounts" is used in the statutory books, therefore the authorities can see the same list of accounts and the same level of detail in the Income statement and in the Balance Sheet. For those cases Openbravo provides a "Localization Pack" which includes the Statutory Chart of Accounts such as the Spanish Localization Pack On the other hand, there are countries such as USA where a specific "Chart of Accounts" is not required. For those cases Openbravo provides a Generic Chart of Accounts module which includes a sample Chart of Accounts which can be modified as required. It is recommended to start from a sample chart of accounts like the generic one and evolve it for the organization's needs rather than starting from scratch. In­country taxes setup is another key element of the basic accounting configuration. There can be Localization Packs which include the setup of the taxes for the country while there can be others which do not include the setup of the taxes for the country. The Generic CoA module does not include any taxes setup. Having said all of that, there are three possible "accounting" scenarios: 1. Openbravo environments with a Localization Pack installed, for instance the Spanish Localization Pack. A localization Pack which also includes the taxes setup for Spain. 2. Openbravo environments with the Generic Chart of Accounts (CoA) installed, mainly in those countries where statutory CoA are not required. 3. and Openbravo environments which do not have a Localization Pack installed neither the Generic Chart of Accounts module installed The basic accounting configuration is practically the same one for the tree scenarios above but the level of defaulted configuration provided by Openbravo. Obviously scenario 3 above requires an additional configuration effort. Finally, it is important to remark that the basic accounting configuration described here is obviously one part of the overall Business setup flow. Scenario 1 and 2 ­Localization Pack or Generic CoA module installed These two scenarios can be grouped as the basis of the accounting configuration required for both of them is the same. The configuration steps to follow are: To customize the defaulted "General Ledger configuration" as described in the General Ledger configuration maintenance article of the Quick Guide. To review and maintain the Chart of Accounts created by default as described also in the Chart of Accounts Maintenance article of the Quick Guide. Finally, it is also required to setup the "Balance Sheet" and the "Income Statement" as described also in the Quick Guide. It is important to remark that: If the Localization Pack includes the in­country taxes setup, the only configuration left to do is: to assign the corresponding Tax Categories to the products and to assign the corresponding Business Partner Tax category to the business partners of the Organization, otherwise review the last step of the scenario 3 below which describes how to create and setup the taxes. Scenario 3 ­Localization Pack and Generic CoA do not installed The enterprise in this scenario should follow below steps which implies an additional configuration effort: The creation, setup and maintenance of the Account Tree. The creation and setup of the General Ledger configuration. The setup of the "Balance Sheet" and the "Income Statement" in the Balance Sheet and P&L Structure Setup window The creation and setup of the "Taxes". This step implies to create and properly configure three taxes dimensions which are: The Tax Categories. Tax categories are related to products. When you transact with a product, the tax category is used to determine the rate which gets applied. Once created need to be linked to the Products. The Business Partner Tax Categories as there are some business partners who are treated differently from others according to established legal provisions. Business Partner Tax Categories are used to identify these business partners and to incorporate these differences into tax calculations. Once created need to be linked to the Customers and Vendors http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 3/10
  • 4. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki And finally the Tax Rates which are the applicable rates for a tax category within the context of a document and its elements (business partner, product, locations). This scenario is covered in the corresponding articles of the User Guide. Additionally, all of the three scenarios above require anyway below additional accounting configuration: The creation of a Fiscal Calendar The creation of the Years of the calendar and the Periods of each year. The accounting periods of a year can follow the calendar year of January to December, or can differ. The opening of the accounting periods is the Open/Close Period Control window. Openbravo allows to open all the periods of a year at once or to open the first period of a year and later on the next/s, or even to open first a given set of periods. If a period is not open it is not possible to make any journal entry within that period and get it posted. To allow the accounting users to "Post"/"Unpost" transactions as well as to view and edit the ledger accounts contained in the "Accounting" tabs such as the Accounting tab in the product window. Above is configured by setting for those user/s the Preference "ShowAcct" to "Yes". To schedule the Accounting Server Process in case it is desire that Openbravo searches and posts the transactions in status "Complete" suitable to be posted. Advanced Configuration As already mentioned there is an additional accounting configuration which might be needed regardless of whether a localization pack is installed or not. The creation of the G/L Items. A G/L item is an “alias” used in place of a sub­account number. A G/L Item can be used to post transactions related to invoices and payments. G/L items are used to account for financial obligations that are not ordinarily invoiced and other special procurement items which are invoiced but for which no ordinary master data (such as a Product) are maintained. As a side note Openbravo contains pre­seeded Document Types: Each document type in Openbravo refers to a business transaction such as a purchase invoice or a sales order. The document types allow you to create specific printed formats for business documents and allow you to define sequence numbers for their use. Execution Overall the Period End Close to Financial Report business flow can be split into the following steps once the accounting period has been opened: the opening of the accounting the review of the accounting transactions the creation of accounting transactions and G/L item payments the printing of the Trial Balance the adjustments required prior to the income calculation the adjustments require prior to the closing of the accounting year the printing of the preliminary Income Statement and Balance Sheet the closing of the accounting year and the printing of the final Income Statement and Balance Sheet Opening of the accounting This very first step implies to initialize the balance of the ledger accounts and the financial accounts or banks. The way to do that in Openbravo is: The ledger accounts balance can be initialized by using a G/L Journal set us "Opening", therefore that ledger entry is set as the "Opening Ledger Entry". A journal line can be created for each account and its opening balance, once done the G/L Journal will validate that the Total Debit of all the entries equals to the Total Credit. The financial accounts balance can be initialized in the Financial Account window, in the "Initial Balance" field, therefore the corresponding financial account/s or banks needs to be previously created. To learn more about this topic, please review the How to initialize financial balances in Openbravo article. Review of the accounting transactions As already mentioned in Openbravo most of the accounting entries are automatically created while posting documents such as a purchase invoice or a sales invoice. For instance the accounting of a purchase invoice will take: the expense account setup for the product being purchased in the Accounting tab of the "Product" window the vendor liability account setup for the vendor in the Vendor Accounting tab of the "Business Partner" window and the tax credit account setup in the Accounting tab of the "Tax Rate" window. Openbravo allows to review and correct if needed the accounting entries of transactional documents such as the Invoices. Same way Openbravo allows to unpost wrongly posted transactional documents one by one to get them corrected and properly posted once more. The way to do that is explained in the Document­Post/ Unpost article of the Common Concepts and Processes section. Additionally, the Accounting Transactions Details report shows all the transactions posted in the ledger with all the details and the Not Posted Transactions report shows the transactions which need to be accounted but have not been accounted yet. Finally Openbravo allows to massively fix accounting errors if any, for instance a vendor liability account wrongly assigned to a vendor or to a set of vendors. The way to do that is: run the Reset Accounting process for the table being affected for instance the "C_Invoice" table (Purchase Invoice and Sales Invoice table). http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 4/10
  • 5. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki correct the accounting configuration get the transactions posted once again by using the GL Posting by DB Tables feature. This feature performs a massive posting of all the accounting or just the accounting of a table for instance the "C_Invoice" table (Purchase Invoice and Sales Invoice table). Creation of accounting transactions and G/L item payments As already mentioned accounting entries do not related to documents managed within a given application area can be created and post to the ledger by using a G/L Journal. A G/L Journal can also be used to make and/or receive payments do not related to orders/invoices but to G/L items. G/L items payments are also managed within the Payables and Receivables management area. Printing of the Trial Balance to check that "Debit=Credit The Trial Balance is a list indicating the balances of every single general ledger account at a given point in time. The purpose of the trial balance is to check that debits are equal to credits. If debits do not equal credits that means that an erroneous journal entry must have been posted. Openbravo does not allow to post journal entries which do not balance. A G/L Journal can only be posted if Debit equals Credit, however there could be situations where while posting an invoice rounding differences drive that debit do not exactly equal credit. In this situations the difference is posted in a specific suspense account. Suspense accounts are configured in the General Ledger configuration. Adjustments required prior to the income calculation An organization's income statement shows the organization's financial performance over a period of time (usually one year) as the difference between: the organization's revenue and the organization's expenses An Income Statement can look like: In order to get an accurate income calculation, there are some adjustments required to be done first: the organization needs to review the revenues and the expenses to be sure that the ones accounted within the period which is going to be closed are the ones which should be accounted regardless whether they are paid or not. This kind of adjustment is not required if the organization follows the accrual method of accounting that is Openbravo method of accounting. Under the accrual method of accounting, revenue is recorded as soon as services are provided or goods are delivered and therefore invoiced, regardless of when cash is received. Same way, expenses are recognize as soon as the company receives goods or services and therefore get invoiced, regardless of when it actually pays for them. the organization needs to calculate the Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS). The CoGS is the amount that the company paid for the goods that it sold over the course of the period. This calculation depends on the method of keeping track of inventory. There are two primary methods, the perpetual method and the periodic method: the perpetual method is used by any business that keeps real­time information on inventory levels and that tracks inventory on an item­by­item basis. This method allows very accurate recordkeeping as to the Cost of Goods Sold which is the sum of the cost of all the items sold over the period. the periodic method is used by any business that count inventory at regular intervals. When using this method Cost of Goods Sold is calculated using the following equation: (Beginning Inventory + Inventory purchases ­Ending Inventory = Cost of Goods Sold) Besides if a business is dealing with changing per­unit inventory costs, a specific method of calculating the CoGS needs to be used, that could either be FIFO, LIFO or Average Cost. Finally an income statement can separate "Operating Expenses" such as salaries and rent from "Non­Operating Expenses" such as a lawsuit. Operating Expenses are the expenses related to the normal operation of the business and are likely to be incurred in future periods as well. This way allows the calculation of the "Operating Income" as the difference between the "Gross Profit" and the "Total Operating Expenses". Adjustments required prior to the closing of the accounting year Other adjustments required can be : Long term amounts must be reclassified to short term amounts. The long term amount reclassified to short term amount is the amount due in the next year. This process is usually done for long term doubts for instance. In Openbravo this kind of transactions can be manually created by using a GL Journal. http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 5/10
  • 6. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki Taxes such as the VAT needs to be settled periodically. The How to Manage VAT settlement and payment article explains how to do that in Openbravo. It is important to remark that VAT accounts balance has to be equal to 0 in the last period of the year, as either the organization has to pay to the tax authorities or the other way around. Assets depreciation needs to be properly accounted within the period being closed as this adjustment will affect : the income statement as depreciation is an expense and the debit side of the balance sheet as assets will be decreased by the depreciation amount of the period The printing of the preliminary Income Statement and Balance Sheet Once configured, Openbravo allows to get and print the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet whenever it is required as the structure of these reports is based on the chart of accounts tree. It is very useful to print these financial reports prior to the closing of the year as it allows to get a sense of whether there are some missing adjustments required to be done prior to the closing of the year or not. During the accounting cycle there are other reports which can also be printed: the General Ledger Report list all the debits entries and all the credits entries of every "T­Account" within a given period of time the Journal Entries Report lists in a chronological order every journal entry posted in the ledger The closing of the fiscal year Openbravo allows to perform below detailed checks prior to the closing of the fiscal year: run the Not Posted Transaction report to verify that there are no transactions and/or documents in status "Complete" do not posted yet. check that there are no documents still having a "Draft" status, specially those ones which require to be accounted. unscheduled the Accounting Server Process therefore an stable scene can be assured. Check that the Financial Account/s current balance in Openbravo and compare it with the information provided by the banks. It is possible to adjust financial account balance by using G/L Items or how to transfer funds between financial accounts. Before running the close year process the accounting periods can be closed not to allow any further posting within those periods, but the "13th period". The "13th period" is an "adjustment period" which can be used to post the adjustments required to the ledger through G/L Journals prior closing the year. The ”Close Year” process can be executed from the End Year Close window. The end­year close process can be executed for "Legal with Accounting" organization types as that organization's type have a "Fiscal Calendar" and "General Ledger" configured. There is a check­box in the General Accounts tab of the "General Ledger Configuration" window which drives how the end­year closing outcome is going to be for the organizations' General Ledger. That check­box is named "Reverse Permanent Account Balances" if it is checked the closing of the year process includes an entry to reverse the balance sheet accounts besides the P&L closing entry if it does not check the closing of the year process includes just the P&L closing entry Openbravo uses the adjustment period (i.e. December 31st) for accounting the closing transactions if any, and the next period's first date (i.e. January 1st) for accounting the opening transactions if any. To learn more about this process, visit the End Year Close window. The printing of the final "Income Statement" and "Balance Sheet" Once a year has been closed every financial report contains the corresponding closing and opening transactions: the Balance Sheet will show the financial situation of the organization as of the end of the accounting period closed. Openbravo allows to get a two columns balance sheet: One column shows the balances as of the end of the most recent accounting period and the other column shows the balances as of the prior period end. This balance allows to see how the financial position of the organization has changed over time. the Income Statement will show the organization performance over the year closed And besides: the General ledger Journal allows to show for a given accounting period below entries posted by the "Close Year" process: the opening balance entry the closing balance entry and the P&L closing entry Payables and Receivables Management Payables and Receivables Management addresses customer collections and supplier payments as well as other payments do not related to invoices but to orders (prepayments) or G/L Items. http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 6/10
  • 7. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki Configuration The following setup needs to be done before performing the process: Payables and Receivables Document Types. Payment Methods. Financial Accounts. Business Partners to use above configured Payment Methods and a Financial Accounts. Note: It is not required to perform any additional setup for the Payables and Receivables Management business process if Food & Beverage (F&B) sample client shipped with Openbravo by default is going to be used to explore it. The sample data set already contains the roles, warehouses, business partners, products and prices pre­configured. Execution Overall the Payables and Receivables Management business process can be split into the following steps: the creation of the orders and invoices to be paid the creation of payments do not related to orders/invoices the review of the status of the pending payments the receipt of the payments made by the customers the payment of the supplier's invoices the recording of the financial account transactions and the reconciliation of the financial account transactions Creation of the orders/invoices to be paid In the Procure to Pay and Order to Cash business process we have seen how the orders and invoices have been generated. Every time that a Purchase or Sales Order is booked or a Purchase or Sales Invoice is completed a Payment Plan is created for that Order / Invoice. A payment plan contains the payment amount/s expected for the document and its fulfillment. At the same time the invoice Payment Monitor section gets activated that allows to track the invoice payment status directly from the invoice window. Creation of payments do not related to orders/invoices In the Period End Close to Financial Report business process we have seen how a payment can be made or received by using a GL Journal therefore it is not related to an order/invoice but to a G/L Item. A G/L Item payment created in a G/L Journals implies: the creation of a Payment Made if the payment information is entered in the "Credit" line of the G/L Journal. The status of this payment would either be "Payment Made" or "Awaiting Execution" or "Withdrawn not Cleared" depending on the configuration of the payment method used and linked to the financial account where the money is taken from. http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 7/10
  • 8. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki or the creation of a Payment Received if the payment information is entered in the "Debit" line of the G/L Journal. The status of this payment would either be "Payment Received" or "Awaiting Execution" or "Deposited not Cleared" depending on the configuration of the payment method used and linked to the financial account where the money is going to be deposited in. Review of the status of the pending payments On a periodic basis the Finance Staff reviews the status of the payments pending to be collected / to be paid by looking: At the Payment Report and filtering by the status Awaiting Payment which means that no payment has been either received or made against the order or invoice yet. Overdue check­box allows to narrow down the search and to show only overdue payments. Payment Type displays Receivables, Payables or both. In addition to this Sales and Purchase Invoice windows in grid view are available to search open invoices by setting Payment Complete field to No. Receipt of the customer's payments When a Payment is Received the Finance staff can register it in different ways: In the Payment In window by selecting the Sales Invoices and/or Orders payment is received against. Note. Many businesses do not wish to extend credit to specific customers and may therefore have a payment term that requires payment against an order. In effect this is a prepayment of an invoice. Later when an invoice is created from an order that already has a payment received against it the invoice automatically inherits the payment received against the order. Using the Add Payment button directly within the corresponding Sales Invoice. It can be when the user has received a single payment for a particular invoice and prefers to browse for that invoice in order to allocate the payment to it. It is also possible to automate receiving of a payment on completion of a Sales Invoice through the configuration of the Payment Method. If collection does not happen on time: The Expected Date of the Payment Plan can be modified, preventing the debt for being overdue. The Amount due of the Payment Plan can be: split in two or more amounts due at a later expected date. or grouped in just one amount due at a later expected date. The outstanding balance for a customer can be totally or partially written off. Payment of the supplier's invoices There are 3 ways to pay vendor bills: Using the Payment Proposal process. This process supports the automatic payment of a large number of invoices based on the due dates of the lines of the Payment Plan associated with the open Purchase Invoices. The finance staff can request a proposal of all invoices to be paid based on a number of criteria, review that proposal, and then automatically make the payment. In the Payment Out window by selecting the Purchase Invoices and/or Orders payment is made against. Note. Many businesses do not have credit extended to them and may therefore be required to make a payment against a purchase order. In effect this is a prepayment of a purchase invoice. Later when an invoice is created from an order that already has a payment made against it the invoice automatically inherits the payment made against the order. Using the Add Payment button directly within the corresponding Purchase Invoice. It can be when the user needs to make a single payment for a particular invoice and prefers to browse for that invoice in order to allocate the payment to it. It is also possible to automate making of a payment on completion of a Purchase Invoice through the configuration of the Payment Method. Recording of the financial account transactions Finance Staff records Withdrawals and Deposits as transactions in the Financial Account window by pressing the Add Transaction button and selecting either the received or made payments. This step in the process can also be completely automated through the configuration of the Payment Method so that the payments are automatically withdrawn or deposited when they are completed. Reconciliation of the financial account transactions Finance Staff receives a bank statement (a paper or electronic bank statement) and reconciles the transactions in the Financial Account marked as Deposited / Withdrawn not Cleared with the actual transactions on the bank statement. This process can be done Manually (one by one reconciling the transactions in the Openbravo Financial Account with the bank statement lines) by using the Reconcile button of the Financial Account window. Automatically by Importing Statement first and then Matching Statement using a matching algorithm. Additionally, any transactions (receipts and payments) shown on the bank statement and not reflected in the Financial Account should also be entered into Openbravo to get them reconciled. Finally Finance Staff prints the Reconciliation reports (Reconciliation Details, Reconciliations Summary) that explain any difference in the end balance shown for the Financial Account in Openbravo and the end balance shown on the bank statement. Asset Acquisition to Dispose Manages global assets life cycle from acquisition to disposition, including depreciation and other write­downs. http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 8/10
  • 9. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki Note: This business flow is not yet documented in the new User Guide. Meanwhile we progress on it please use following Asset_Acquisition_to_Dispose document. Relationship with other areas Financial Management has a connection with other application areas, as there are documents or transactions in those areas which can be posted and therefore be part of a ledger journal to be finally managed within the Financial Management application area. Procurement Management as Purchase Invoices are posted there and Goods Shipments as well as Supplier's Payments or Payments Out can be posted there. Sales Management as Sales Invoices are posted there and Goods Shipment as well as customers's Payments or Payments In can be posted there. Warehouse Management as Physical Inventory is posted there. Production Management as for the processing of the Work Effort raw materials are consumed and posted there at cost price as well as Products manufactured. Application Menu Please find below detailed description of all windows and reports of the Financial Management application area split into three sub­areas: Receivables and Payables Accounting and Assets Receivables and Payables Transactions Purchase Invoice Payment Plan Payment Out Payment Proposal Sales Invoice Payment Plan Payment In Financial Account Payment Execution Tax Payment Doubtful Debt Doubtful Debt Run Analysis Tools Payment Report Payment Run Setup Tax Register Type Payment Method Doubtful Debt Method Accounting Transactions http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 9/10
  • 10. 6/23/2014 Financial Management - OpenbravoWiki G/L Journal End Year Close GL Posting by DB Tables Budget Create Budget Reports in Excel Not Posted Transaction Report Reset Accounting Analysis Tools Accounting Transaction Details Balance sheet and P&L structure Trial Balance General Ledger Report Journal Entries Report Customer Statement Setup Open/Close Period Control Period Control Log Account Tree General Ledger Configuration Fiscal Calendar Account Combination G/L Item G/L Category Document Type Document Sequence Tax Category Business Partner Tax Category Tax Rate Cost Center ABC Activity Balance sheet and P&L structure Setup Assets Assets Asset Group Amortization Analysis Tools Asset report for depreciation schedule Advanced Matching Algorithm Bank File Format Execution Process User Defined Accounting Report Create Tax Report User Defined Accounting Report Setup Tax Report Setup Accounting Process Accounting templates Back to User Guide Retrieved from "http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management" This page has been accessed 34,408 times. This page was last modified on 12 July 2013, at 15:09. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution­ShareAlike 2.5 Spain License. Categories: User Guide | Generated Doc http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Financial_Management#Payables_and_Receivables_Management 10/10