Accounting localization

Warning

This tutorial requires knowledge about how to build a module in Odoo (see Getting started).

Installation procedure

On installing the account module, the localization module corresponding to the country code of the company is installed automatically. In case of no country code set or no localization module found, the l10n_generic_coa (US) localization module is installed by default. Check post init hook for details.

For example, l10n_ch will be installed if the company has Switzerland as country.

Building a localization module

The structure of a basic l10n_XX module may be described with the following __manifest__.py file:

{
    "name": "COUNTRY - Accounting",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "category": "Accounting/Localizations/Account Charts",
    "license": "LGPL-3",
    "depends": [
        "account",
    ],
    "data": [
        "data/other_data.xml",
        "views/xxxmodel_views.xml",
    ],
    "demo": [
        "demo/demo_company.xml",
    ]
}

Your worktree should look like this

l10n_xx
├── data
│   ├── template
│   │   ├── account.account-xx.csv
│   │   ├── account.group-xx.csv
│   │   └── account.tax.group-xx.csv
│   └── other_data.xml
├── views
│   └── xxxmodel_views.xml
├── demo
│   └── demo_company.xml
├── models
│   ├── template_xx.py
│   └── __init__.py
├── __init__.py
└── __manifest__.py

In the first file models/template_xx.py, we set the name for the chart of accounts along with some basic fields.

See also

Chart Template References

Example

addons/l10n_be/models/template_be.py

    def _get_be_template_data(self):
        return {
            'name': _('Base'),
            'visible': False,
            'code_digits': '6',
            'property_account_receivable_id': 'a400',
            'property_account_payable_id': 'a440',
            'property_account_expense_categ_id': 'a600',
            'property_account_income_categ_id': 'a7000',
        }

    @template('be', 'res.company')
    def _get_be_res_company(self):
        return {
            self.env.company.id: {
                'account_fiscal_country_id': 'base.be',
                'bank_account_code_prefix': '550',
                'cash_account_code_prefix': '570',
                'transfer_account_code_prefix': '580',
                'account_default_pos_receivable_account_id': 'a4001',
                'income_currency_exchange_account_id': 'a754',
                'expense_currency_exchange_account_id': 'a654',
                'account_journal_suspense_account_id': 'a499',
                'account_journal_early_pay_discount_loss_account_id': 'a657000',
                'account_journal_early_pay_discount_gain_account_id': 'a757000',
                'account_sale_tax_id': 'attn_VAT-OUT-21-L',
                'account_purchase_tax_id': 'attn_VAT-IN-V81-21',
                'default_cash_difference_income_account_id': 'a757100',
                'default_cash_difference_expense_account_id': 'a657100',
                'transfer_account_id': 'a58',
            },
        }

    @template('be', 'account.journal')
    def _get_be_account_journal(self):
        return {
            'sale': {'refund_sequence': True},
            'purchase': {'refund_sequence': True},
        }

    @template('be', 'account.reconcile.model')

Chart of Accounts

Account tags

See also

Account Tag References

Tags are a way to sort accounts. For example, imagine you want to create a financial report having multiple lines but you have no way to find a rule to dispatch the accounts according to their code. The solution is the usage of tags, one for each report line, to filter accounts like you want.

Put the tags in the data/account_account_tag_data.xml file.

Example

addons/l10n_lt/data/template/account.account-lt.csv

"id","name","code","account_type","tag_ids","reconcile","name@lt"
"account_account_template_1130","Software Acquisition Cost","1130","asset_non_current","l10n_lt.account_account_tag_a_1_3","False","Programinės įrangos įsigijimo savikaina"
"account_account_template_1138","Amortization of Software Value (-)","1138","asset_non_current","l10n_lt.account_account_tag_a_1_3","False","Programinės įrangos vertės amortizacija (−)"
"account_account_template_1200","Land Acquisition Cost","1200","asset_fixed","l10n_lt.account_account_tag_a_2_1","False","Žemės įsigijimo savikaina"
"account_account_template_1201","Change of Land Value after Revaluation","1201","asset_fixed","l10n_lt.account_account_tag_a_2_1","False","Žemės vertės pokytis dėl perkainojimo"

Accounts

See also

• Account References

• Chart of accounts

Obviously, Chart of Accounts cannot exist without Accounts. You need to specify them in data/account.account.template.csv.

Example

addons/l10n_ch/data/template/account.account-ch.csv

"id","name","code","account_type","reconcile","name@de","name@it","name@fr","name@ar","name@zh_CN","name@nl"
"ch_coa_1060","Securities (with stock exchange price)","1060","asset_current","False","Wertpapiere (mit Börsenkurs)","Titoli","Titres","","",""
"ch_coa_1069","Accumulated depreciation on securities","1069","asset_current","False","Kumulierte Abschreibungen auf Wertpapiere","Rettifica valore titoli","Ajustement de la valeur des titres","","",""
"ch_coa_1091","Transfer account: Salaries","1091","asset_current","True","Transferkonto: Gehälter","Conto d'attesa - Salari","Compte d'attente pour salaires","","",""
"ch_coa_1099","Transfer account: miscellaneous","1099","asset_current","True","Transferkonto: Verschiedenes","Conto d'attesa - altro","Compte d'attente autre","","",""
"ch_coa_1100","Accounts receivable from goods and services (Debtors)","1100","asset_receivable","True","Forderungen aus Lieferungen und Leistungen (Debitoren)","Crediti da forniture e prestazioni (debitori)","Débiteurs","","",""
"ch_coa_1101","Receivable (PoS)","1101","asset_receivable","True","Forderungen (PoS)","Crediti (Punti Vendita)","Débiteurs (PoS)","","",""
"ch_coa_1109","Del credere (Acc. depr. on debtors)","1109","asset_current","False","Delkredere (Akontoabzug für Schuldner)","Delcredere","Ducroire","","",""
"ch_coa_1140","Advances and loans","1140","asset_current","False","Vorschüsse und Darlehen","Anticipi e prestiti","Avances et prêts","","",""
"ch_coa_1149","Advances and loans adjustments","1149","asset_current","False","Anpassungen von Vorschüssen und Darlehen","Rettifica valore anticipi e prestiti","Ajustement de la valeur des avances et des prêts","","",""
"ch_coa_1170","Input Tax (VAT) receivable on material, goods, services, energy","1170","asset_current","False","Vorsteuer (MwSt.) auf Material, Waren, Dienstleistungen, Energie","IVA, Imposta precedente su materiale, merce, servizi e energia","Impôt préalable: TVA s/matériel, marchandises, prestations et énergie","","",""
"ch_coa_1171","Input Tax (VAT) receivable on investments, other operating expenses","1171","asset_current","False","Vorsteuer (MwSt.) auf Investitionen, sonstige betriebliche Aufwendungen","IVA, imposta precedente su investimenti e altri costi d’esercizio","Impôt préalable: TVA s/investissements et autres charges d’exploitation","","",""

Warning

• Avoid the usage of asset_cash account_type! Indeed, the bank & cash accounts are created directly at the installation of the localization module and then, are linked to an account.journal.

• Only one account of type payable/receivable is enough for the generic case. We need to define a PoS receivable account as well however. (linked in the CoA)

• Don’t create too many accounts: 200-300 is enough. But mostly, we try to find a good balance where the CoA needs minimal adapting for most companies afterwards.

Account groups

See also

Account Group References

Account groups allow describing the hierarchical structure of the chart of accounts. The filter needs to be activated in the report and then when you decollapse into journal entries it will show the parents of the account.

It works with the prefix start/end, so every account where the code starts with something between start and end will have this account.group as the parent group. Furthermore, the account groups can have a parent account group as well to form the hierarchy.

Example

addons/l10n_il/data/template/account.group-il.csv

id	code_prefix_start	code_prefix_end	name	name@he_IL
il_group_100100	100100	100499	Fixed Assets	רכוש קבוע
il_group_101110	101110	101400	Current Assets	רכוש שוטף
il_group_101401	101401	101799	Bank And Cash	בנק ומזומנים
il_group_111000	111000	111999	Current Liabilities	התחייבויות שוטפות
il_group_112000	112000	112210	Non-current Liabilities	התחייבויות לא שוטפות
il_group_200000	200000	200199	Sales Income	הכנסות ממכירות
il_group_200200	200200	200300	Other Income	הכנסות אחרות
il_group_201000	201000	201299	Cost of Goods	עלות המכר
il_group_202000	202000	220900	Expenses	הוצאות
il_group_300000	300000	399999	Capital And Shares	הון ומניות

Taxes

See also

• Tax References

• Taxes

To add taxes you first need to specify tax groups. You normally need just one tax group for every tax rate, except for the 0% as you need to often distinguish between exempt, 0%, not subject, … taxes. This model only has two required fields: name and country. Create the file data/template/account.tax.group-xx.csv and list the groups.

Example

addons/l10n_uk/data/template/account.tax.group-uk.csv

"id","name","country_id"
"tax_group_0","TAX 0%","base.uk"
"tax_group_5","TAX 5%","base.uk"
"tax_group_175","TAX 17.5%","base.uk"
"tax_group_20","TAX 20%","base.uk"

Now you can add the taxes via data/template/account.tax-xx.csv file. The first tax you define that is purchase/sale also becomes the default purchase/sale tax for your products.

Example

addons/l10n_ae/data/template/account.tax-ae.csv

"id","name","type_tax_use","amount","amount_type","description","invoice_label","tax_group_id","repartition_line_ids/repartition_type","repartition_line_ids/document_type","repartition_line_ids/tag_ids","repartition_line_ids/account_id","repartition_line_ids/factor_percent"
"uae_sale_tax_5_dubai","5% DB","sale","5.0","percent","Vat 5% Dubai","VAT 5%","ae_tax_group_5","base","invoice","+b. Dubai (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","invoice","+b. Dubai (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"","","","","","","","","base","refund","-b. Dubai (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","refund","-b. Dubai (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"uae_sale_tax_5_abu_dhabi","5% AD","sale","5.0","percent","VAT 5% Abu Dhabi","VAT 5%","ae_tax_group_5","base","invoice","+a. Abu Dhabi (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","invoice","+a. Abu Dhabi (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"","","","","","","","","base","refund","-a. Abu Dhabi (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","refund","-a. Abu Dhabi (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"uae_sale_tax_5_sharjah","5% S","sale","5.0","percent","VAT 5% Sharjah","VAT 5%","ae_tax_group_5","base","invoice","+c. Sharjah (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","invoice","+c. Sharjah (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"","","","","","","","","base","refund","-c. Sharjah (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","refund","-c. Sharjah (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"uae_sale_tax_5_ajman","5% A","sale","5.0","percent","VAT 5% Ajman","VAT 5%","ae_tax_group_5","base","invoice","+d. Ajman (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","invoice","+d. Ajman (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"","","","","","","","","base","refund","-d. Ajman (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","refund","-d. Ajman (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"uae_sale_tax_5_umm_al_quwain","5% UAQ","sale","5.0","percent","VAT 5% Umm Al Quwain","VAT 5%","ae_tax_group_5","base","invoice","+e. Umm Al Quwain (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","invoice","+e. Umm Al Quwain (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"","","","","","","","","base","refund","-e. Umm Al Quwain (Base)","",""
"","","","","","","","","tax","refund","-e. Umm Al Quwain (Tax)","uae_account_201017",""
"uae_sale_tax_5_ras_al_khaima","5% RAK","sale","5.0","percent","VAT 5% Ras Al-Khaima","VAT 5%","ae_tax_group_5","base","invoice","+f. Ras Al-Khaima (Base)","",""

Tax Report

Enterprise feature

The tax report is declared in the Invoicing (account) app, but the report is only accessible when Accounting (account_accountant) is installed.

See also

• Report Line

• Tax return (VAT declaration)

In the previous section, you noticed the fields invoice_repartition_line_ids or refund_repartition_line_ids and probably understood nothing about them. Good news: you are not alone on this incomprehension. Bad news: you have to figure it out a bit. The topic is complicated. Indeed:

The simple version is that, in the tax template, you indicate in the invoice/refund repartition lines whether the base or a percentage of the tax needs to be reported in which report line (through the minus/plus_report_line_ids fields). It becomes clear also when you check the tax configuration in the Odoo interface (or check the docs Tax References, Tax Repartition References).

So, once you have properly configured taxes, you just need to add the data/account_tax_report_data.xml file with a record for your account.report. For it to be considered as a tax report, you need to provide it with the right root_report_id.

<odoo>
    <record id="tax_report" model="account.report">
        <field name="name">Tax Report</field>
        <field name="root_report_id" ref="account.generic_tax_report"/>
        <field name="country_id" ref="base.XX"/>
    </record>

    ...
</odoo>

… followed by the declaration of its lines, as account.report.line records.

Example

addons/l10n_au/data/account_tax_report_data.xml

    <record id="tax_report" model="account.report">
        <field name="name">BAS Report</field>
        <field name="root_report_id" ref="account.generic_tax_report"/>
        <field name="country_id" ref="base.au"/>
        <field name="filter_fiscal_position" eval="True"/>
        <field name="availability_condition">country</field>
        <field name="column_ids">
            <record id="tax_report_balance" model="account.report.column">
                <field name="name">Balance</field>
                <field name="expression_label">balance</field>
            </record>
        </field>
        <field name="line_ids">
            <record id="account_tax_report_gstrpt_sale_total" model="account.report.line">
                <field name="name">GST amounts you owe the Tax Office from sales</field>
                <field name="hierarchy_level">0</field>
                <field name="children_ids">
                    <record id="account_tax_report_gstrpt_g1" model="account.report.line">
                        <field name="name">G1: Total Sales (including any GST)</field>
                        <field name="code">G1</field>
                        <field name="expression_ids">
                            <record id="account_tax_report_gstrpt_g1_tag" model="account.report.expression">
                                <field name="label">balance</field>
                                <field name="engine">tax_tags</field>
                                <field name="formula">G1</field>
                            </record>
                        </field>
                        <field name="children_ids">
                            <record id="account_tax_report_gstrpt_g2" model="account.report.line">
                                <field name="name">G2: Export sales</field>
                                <field name="code">G2</field>
                                <field name="expression_ids">
                                    <record id="account_tax_report_gstrpt_g2_tag" model="account.report.expression">
                                        <field name="label">balance</field>
                                        <field name="engine">tax_tags</field>
                                        <field name="formula">G2</field>
                                    </record>
                                </field>
                            </record>

Fiscal positions

See also

• Fiscal Position References

• Fiscal positions (tax and account mapping)

Specify fiscal positions in the data/template/account.fiscal.position-xx.csv file.

Example

addons/l10n_es/data/template/account.fiscal.position-es_common.csv

"id","sequence","name","name@es","auto_apply","vat_required","country_id","country_group_id","tax_ids/tax_src_id","tax_ids/tax_dest_id","account_ids/account_src_id","account_ids/account_dest_id"
"fp_nacional","1","Domestic","Régimen Nacional","1","1","base.es","","","","",""
"fp_intra_private","2","EU private","EU privado","1","","","base.europe","","","",""
"fp_intra","3","Intra-community","Régimen Intracomunitario","1","1","","base.europe","account_tax_template_p_iva0_s_bc","account_tax_template_p_iva0_ic_bc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva0_s_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva0_ic_sc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva4_bc","account_tax_template_p_iva4_ic_bc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva4_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva4_sp_in","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva4_bi","account_tax_template_p_iva4_ic_bi","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva5_bc","account_tax_template_p_iva5_ic_bc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva5_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva5_ic_sc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva10_bc","account_tax_template_p_iva10_ic_bc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva10_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva10_sp_in","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva10_bi","account_tax_template_p_iva10_ic_bi","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva21_bc","account_tax_template_p_iva21_ic_bc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva21_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva21_sp_in","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva21_bi","account_tax_template_p_iva21_ic_bi","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva0b","account_tax_template_s_iva0_ic","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva0s","account_tax_template_s_iva0_sp_i","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva4b","account_tax_template_s_iva0_ic","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva4s","account_tax_template_s_iva0_sp_i","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva5b","account_tax_template_s_iva0_ic","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva5s","account_tax_template_s_iva0_sp_i","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva10b","account_tax_template_s_iva0_ic","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva10s","account_tax_template_s_iva0_sp_i","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva21b","account_tax_template_s_iva0_ic","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva21s","account_tax_template_s_iva0_sp_i","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_s_iva21isp","account_tax_template_s_iva0_ic","",""
"","","","","","","","","","","account_common_7000","account_common_7001"
"","","","","","","","","","","account_common_7010","account_common_7011"
"","","","","","","","","","","account_common_7020","account_common_7021"
"","","","","","","","","","","account_common_7030","account_common_7031"
"","","","","","","","","","","account_common_7040","account_common_7041"
"","","","","","","","","","","account_common_7050","account_common_7051"
"fp_extra","4","Extra-community","Régimen Extracomunitario","1","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva0_s_bc","account_tax_template_p_iva0_ibc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva0_s_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva0_isc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva4_bc","","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva4_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva4_sp_ex","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva4_bi","account_tax_template_p_iva4_ibi","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva5_bc","","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva5_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva5_isc","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva10_bc","","",""
"","","","","","","","","account_tax_template_p_iva10_sc","account_tax_template_p_iva10_sp_ex","",""

Final steps

Finally, you may add a demo company, so the localization can easily be tested in demo mode.

Example

addons/l10n_ch/demo/demo_company.xml

    <record id="partner_demo_company_ch" model="res.partner">
        <field name="name">CH Company</field>
        <field name="vat">CHE-530781296TVA</field>
        <field name="street">14 Meierskappelerstrasse</field>
        <field name="city">Risch-Rotkreuz</field>
        <field name="country_id" ref="base.ch"/>
        
        <field name="zip">6343</field>
        <field name="phone">+41 78 123 45 67</field>
        <field name="email">info@company.chexample.com</field>
        <field name="website">www.chexample.com</field>
    </record>

    <record id="partner_demo_company_bank_account" model="res.partner.bank">
        <field name="acc_type">iban</field>
        <field name="acc_number">CH4431999123000889012</field>
        <field name="bank_id" ref="base.bank_ing" />
        <field name="partner_id" ref="l10n_ch.partner_demo_company_ch"/>
    </record>

    <record id="demo_company_ch" model="res.company">
        <field name="name">CH Company</field>
        <field name="partner_id" ref="partner_demo_company_ch"/>
    </record>

    <function model="res.company" name="_onchange_country_id">
        <value eval="[ref('demo_company_ch')]"/>
    </function>

    <function model="res.users" name="write">
        <value eval="[ref('base.user_root'), ref('base.user_admin'), ref('base.user_demo')]"/>
        <value eval="{'company_ids': [(4, ref('l10n_ch.demo_company_ch'))]}"/>
    </function>

    <function model="account.chart.template" name="try_loading">
        <value eval="[]"/>
        <value>ch</value>
        <value model="res.company" eval="obj().env.ref('l10n_ch.demo_company_ch')"/>
    </function>

Accounting reports

Enterprise feature

See also

Reporting

Accounting reports should be added via a separate module l10n_XX_reports that should go to the enterprise repository.

Basic __manifest__.py file for such a module looks as following:

{
    "name": "COUNTRY - Accounting Reports",
    "category": "Accounting/Localizations/Reporting",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "license": "OEEL-1",
    "depends": [
        "l10n_XX", "account_reports"
    ],
    "data": [
        "data/balance_sheet.xml",
        "data/profit_and_loss.xml",
    ],
    "auto_install": True,
}

Functional overview of financial reports is here: Reporting.

Some good examples:

• l10n_ch_reports/data/account_financial_html_report_data.xml

• l10n_be_reports/data/account_financial_html_report_data.xml

You can check the meaning of the fields here:

• Report

• Report Line

If you gave a root_report_id to your report, it is now available in its variant selector. If not, you still need to add a menu item for it. A default menu item can be created from the form view of the report by clicking on Actions ‣ Create Menu Item. You will then need to refresh the page to see it. Alternatively, to create a dedicated section for a totally new report in the Reporting menu, you need to create a new ir.ui.menu record (usually in the main l10n_XX module) and a new ir.actions.client (usually in the new report XML file) that calls the account.report with the new report id. Then, set the new menu as parent_id field in the action model.

Example

• ir.ui.menu creation

• ir.actions.client and menu item creation