NF13 New Accounting Dimensions

Feature: New Accounting Dimensions

Goal: Functional

Developer: Deepak Pansheriya

Feature Ticket: IDEMPIERE-5598

Description

in iDempiere, Activity use for cost center as well as department. But this needs to customize. So it is better to add out of box dimensions for Department and cost center.

As part of this feature, added following accounting dimensions

1. Charge : There may be cases when same GL account can be linked to multiple charges. In this case charge as dimnsion required to summarise accounting per charge.
2. Asset : Adding asset as accounting dimension allow to know expense, depreciations, asset value without adding new GL accounting.
3. Department : Activity is used till date and it requires customization to rename activity system element. In this features added new window for Department and Department as accounting dimension as out of box.
4. Warehouse : Adding warehouse as out of box accounting dimension allow to trek inventory value per warehouse using financial report.
5. Employee
6. Cost Center : Implementation was using Activity, organization or custom column as cost center. but this all approach required customization. after adding out of box cost center dimension as well as window to maintain cost center reduce to customization efforts.
7. Attribute Set Instance: When batch wise inventory is important to manage, adding ASI as accounting dimension allow to easily trek inventory valuation report and inventory accounting difference.
8. Custom Field: This allow to configure text type field as accounting dimension.
9. Tax: This feauture has added tax as parameter on accounting related reports so that tax related statements can be produced.