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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

Introduction


Odoo has a powerful accounting application with a modular approach that attracts various kinds of user base. Users can actually use invoicing-only or full-feature accounting application depending on their needs. There are some advanced features such as managing multiple currencies, multiple companies, profit center, and depreciation or revenue recognition when you would like to scale your business with multiple branches or start selling in the international market.

Computing depreciation is quite a complicated job. When you have many different types of assets, you may want to track the types of assets and their current value, compute the depreciation, and scrap the assets at the end of their life.

Let's see how you can implement the accounting features that you need to scale your business, and manage advanced accounting features such as cost centers, assets, and depreciation for multiple categories of assets, and recognition of periodic revenue in the case of advance sales.