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• move and refactor the existing generic screens under the organization specific menus ("Companies"-->"Accounting") and...
• ... split them into screens focused on AR or AP tasks (for example the existing "New Payment" screen currently shows two forms for incoming/outgoing payments; we could split it into two independent screens)
• or keep the existing screens and create new ones (extending where possible the existing artifacts, forms/scripts) specific for one organization and task's class (AR/AP)
• other ideas?

Journal management management

Some notes on journals (GlJournal), transactions (AcctgTrans), transaction entries (AcctgTransEntry), etc:

1. journals (GlJournal) are optional: transactions (AcctgTrans) do not have to be associated with a journal
2. a transaction (AcctgTrans) is not associated with a GL account and does not represent a debit or credit, each entry (AcctgTransEntry) in a transaction does
3. journals are not meant to be balanced, individual transactions are (checking to see whether or not an entire journal is balanced is simply a matter of seeing if each transaction is balanced
4. origin "documents" (detail records) are associated with the transaction

Initially, we will only use journals for error handling (to group together the failed GL transactions); see next paragraph for some additional details.

Tech details about how the GL accounting services will be called

The GL accounting transactions will be implemented using SECAs (aka OFBiz triggers on service calls): by default they will all call the services responsible for preparing and sending the accounting transaction as sync. However a customer may want to change them to async calls (in this way, an error in the GL service will not interfere with the operation that triggered it).

However, in general, if the GL posting fails for some reason the triggering operation (finalizing an invoice or payment or whatever) would NOT roll back, instead the partial GL post would be places into an error journal (if that failed, then a general error resulting in rollback would be appropriate), if the error journal is defined in the accounting preferences of the organization.