Package: odoo-addon-hr-expense-advance-clearing
Standard Expenses module allow employee to do the expense reimbursement only after the expense has been made.
In other world, employee will need to pay first and reimburse later.This module, allow company to advance an amount to the employee.
Employee can then use that advance amount to purchase product/service first, then back to company and do the clearing.There can be 3 scenarios for advance and clearingWhen clearing amount = advance amount, no other operation is required.When clearing amount > advance amount, company will pay the extra to employee.When clearing amount < advance amount, employee will return the remain to company.Table of contentsConfigurationUsageBug TrackerCreditsAuthorsContributorsMaintainersConfigurationThis module will create a new product “Employee Advance” automatically.
You will need to setup the Expense Account of this product to your Employee Advance account manually.Open Product window and search for “Employee Advance”On Accounting tab, select appropriate employee advance account from your chart of accountNote:You will need the “Show Full Accounting Features” to see accounting dataEmployee Advance account code, if not already exists, you can create one. Use type = Current Asset and check Allow Reconciliation.UsageTo use this module, you must configure product “Employee Advance” with account type = Current Asset and check Allow Reconciliation.
After that, you can step following:Create an Employee AdvanceGo to Expenses > My Expenses > AdvancesCreate sheet and add a line with advanceAs an option, the user can also set the “Clearing Product”. If this is set, on the clear advance step, the clearing product will create a default product line.Set the unit price to advance amount > SaveAs normal, do Submit to Manager > Approve > Post Journal Entries > Register Payment.As this is Advance, you will see a new field “Amount to clear”.Clear Advanceyou can do 2 ways,Create clearing from advance documentGo to Expenses > My Expenses > AdvancesSearch for the Advance you want to clear, or use filter “Advance (not cleared)” to see all uncleared advance.Open an Advance which is now in paid status with some Amount to be cleared.Click button “Clear Advance”, system will create new Expense Report with reference to the previous step Advance.Create name clearing and Save (must save first)Edit > Add or create Expense line(s) as normal.As normal, do Approve > Post Journal EntriesCreate clearing from new expenseGo to Expenses > My Expenses > ExpensesCreate sheet and reference advance with field “Clear Advance” > Save (must save first)Edit > Add or create Expense line(s) as normal.As normal, do Approve > Post Journal EntriesNote:If the total expense amount less than or equal to the advance amount, the status will be set to Paid right after post journal entries.If the total expense amount more than the advance amount, Register Payment will pay the extra amount then set state to Paid.Return AdvanceGo to Expenses > My Expenses > AdvancesSearch for the Advance you want to clear, or use filter “Advance (not cleared)” to see all uncleared advance.Open an Advance which is now in paid status with some Amount to be cleared.Click button “Return Advance” will open Register Payment wizard with Amount to clear.Click button “Create Payment” to return that amount backAll returned, Amount to clear is now equal to 0.0Bug TrackerBugs are tracked onGitHub Issues.
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If you spotted it first, help us to smash it by providing a detailed and welcomedfeedback.Do not contact contributors directly about support or help with technical issues.CreditsAuthorsEcosoftContributorsKitti Upariphutthiphong <kittiu@ecosoft.co.th>Tharathip Chaweewongphan <tharathipc@ecosoft.co.th>Saran Lim. <saranl@ecosoft.co.th>MaintainersThis module is maintained by the OCA.OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose
mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and
promote its widespread use.Currentmaintainer:This module is part of theOCA/hr-expenseproject on GitHub.You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visithttps://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.