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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By : Mantavya Gajjar
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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By: Mantavya Gajjar

Overview of this book

Odoo is a Python-based ERP system and is completely open source. Odoo is a comprehensive suite of business applications offering a wealth of functionalities that can be deployed to meet your business needs. This book will help you manage the different functionalities of your business and optimize it. You will learn in detail about the various facets of the business process such as sales, accounting, purchases, manufacturing, and inventory. We will cover each of these topics in detail and learn how Odoo handles all these tasks with much ease. With its modular approach, you will be able to build customized solutions, take advantage of the Odoo 10 system in your organization, and master basic administration. We will cover modules and applications in Odoo that will help optimize quality checks. You will also be able to customize major reporting functions for your teams and set up forms and documents for sales, purchase, inventory, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to use the major functionalities of Odoo 10 and fully implement them into your business.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up financial management in Odoo


Finance is the heart of an organization; it is connected to all the core activities of a business such as Sales, Purchase, Manufacturing, Projects, and so on. Odoo has a great modular approach, and that's the reason you can choose either to use only the Invoicing application; or the full Financial Accounting application. Invoicing is an integrated application with Sales and Purchase; and is used to create an invoice and track payments, while the Financial Accounting application supports full accounting features, from the configuration of the chart of accounts to printing legal reports such as Profit and Loss Accounts, and Balance sheets.

Let's activate the fully featured Financial Accounting application, configure company information, install a chart of accounts and configure it, and import the opening balance for an each account. To import the opening balance, we have to import the accounts closing from the balance sheet and the customer ledger of...