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ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions

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ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions

Overview of this book

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are essential in today's business market. There are many options for ERP systems; however, ADempiere offers a solid foundation for developing a powerful ERP system that helps your business to manage data efficiently, streamline different processes, lower costs, and improve the efficiency levels without too much complexity. This practical book offers a comprehensive understanding of ADempiere and a look at its main features by way of developing and enhancing a sample case study from concept to deployment. This book will help you model complex business processes with ease. You will learn to install ADempiere followed by configuring the company structure and the initial client set up. You can start working with ADempiere immediately because this book will get you up and running quickly and assumes no knowledge or experience of working with ADempiere. ADempiere3.4 ERP Solutions enables you to set up the accounting parts, define the prerequisite data, learn about product and price management, and perform procurement and sales activities. When you read the book, you'll understand the concept behind the ADempiere workflow and the important function of managing the inventory. Activities such as making user-defined financial reports, procedures on importing data, and security will be covered in detail, and you will also learn about the application dictionary. ADempiere generates accounting facts/journals automatically. In this book, you will understand the impact of these accounting facts in detail. This book will give you a comprehensive study on how to easily implement ADempiere and make the best use of this open source ERP system.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

A walkthrough of the Accounting Schema


The mother of all accounting configuration setups is the Accounting Schema window. Here, you can determine the behavior of the accounting entries in your own ADempiere installation by changing the default configuration. Navigate to the Menu | Performance Analysis | Accounting Rules | Accounting Schema window. This window contains four tabs: Accounting Schema, Account Schema Element, General Ledger, and Defaults. We will discuss these in more detail, with regard to what information is provided in each of tabs, in the following sections.

Exploring the Accounting Schema tab

There are some configurations available in this tab, which include how to make our system an accrual- or cash-based accounting system, the Commitment Type, the Costing Method to be used, and so on.

The complete list of configurations that can be managed is shown in the following screenshot:

We will explain each of the available options in the following sections.

GAAP

GAAP (Generally Accepted...