applications/accounting/data/helpdata/HELP_ACCOUNTING_EditPartyGlAccount.xml

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 <title>The Party GL Account help screen</title>
 <para>he Party / GL Account mapping allows the translation of different
  account types (eg Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable etc) for a
  party to be mapped to a separate general ledger account. The party
  role (eg Bill To Customer) is also used to define the mapping even
  further. OFBiz demo data setup comes with no entries here.</para>
 <para>It is used as a way of implementing subledger functionality in
  OFBiz. Subledger functionality is where a higher level account can be
  split into lower levels. In this case these lower levels can be by
  party.</para>
 <para>An example could be that a business may want to use the general
  ledger to track the Accounts Receivable (AR) by customer so the chart
  of account would be setup something like as follows:</para>
 <para>120000 Accounts Receivable</para>
 <itemizedlist>
  <listitem>
   <para>120010 Accounts Receivable - Customer A</para>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
   <para>120020 Accounts Receiviable - Customer B</para>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
   <para>120030 Accounts Receivalbe - Customer C</para>
  </listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 <para>This has the main AR account is at the top of the hierarchy and 3
  sub accounts below it. Entries for Customers A, B and C would be setup
  with a role of 'Bill From Customer' as this is a role associated with
  the customer when the Sales Invoice is generated.When a transaction
  matching the criteria is processed in the system then these mappings
  will control where it is posted to.In the case of Customer A any AR
  transactions with role 'Bill To Customer' are posted to '120010'
  instead of the standard '120000</para>
 <section>
  <title>How do I add a new Party / GL Account mapping?</title>
  <orderedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>Enter or Lookup the party for the 'Party Id' field</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Select the 'Role Type Id' from the drop down list (NOTE: Be
     careful that you select the correct role for the transactions you
     want to track......)</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Select the 'GL Account Type Id' from the drop down list</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Select the 'GL Account Id' from the drop down list</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Press the 'Add' button</para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>The new entry will be displayed at the bottom of the screen
    </para>
   </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
 </section>
 <section>
  <title>How do I update a Party / GL Account mapping?</title>
  <para>Only the GL Account Id linked to the mapping can be updated.
  </para>
  <orderedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>Locate the Party / GL Account entry that needs to be updated
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Select the new 'GL Account Id' from the drop down list next to
     the entry </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Press the 'Update' button next to the entry</para>
   </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
 </section>
 <section>
  <title>How do I remove a Party / GL Account mapping?</title>
  <orderedlist>
   <listitem>
    <para>Locate the Party / GL Account entry that needs to be removed
    </para>
   </listitem>
   <listitem>
    <para>Press the 'Delete' button next to the entry</para>
   </listitem>
  </orderedlist>
 </section>
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