Patent ID: 7747490
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating a database for accounting purposes, including the preparation of financial statements according to statutory accounting principles, the method, executed by hardware in a computer, comprising: saving document data records from posting documents to a document database, each document data record comprising: a document header specifying one or more statutory accounting principles for which the particular document data record is to be considered; and a data part comprising entries for at least two items, each of which comprises a posting amount and an account assigned thereto; wherein items are automatically generated in the computer and assigned in the data part of the document data record for each of the statutory accounting principles to be considered, the items being assigned to a the particular statutory accounting principle identified for the item in the document header, and calculating totals in the computer from one or more posting amounts of the document data records saved for the accounts assigned thereto; and saving the totals to totals entries of a totals table within the computer, one or more totals entries with one or more totals being created in the totals table pertaining to an account for each of the statutory accounting principles to be considered, the account being specific to each statutory accounting principle identified in the document header, wherein the totals in the totals entries pertaining to a statutory accounting principle are only calculated in the computer with posting amounts from items that are assigned to a the particular statutory accounting principle identified for the totals in the totals entries in the document header.