Chapter 6. Configuring Accounting Finance

One of the nice things about Odoo is you can get up and running fairly quickly without having to spend a lot of time setting up complicated accounting and finance options. Odoo does a reasonable job of creating a basic chart of account structures as a starting point and allowing you to get familiar with Odoo. When setting up a production system for your company, however, you will want to take time to properly define your accounting requirements.

In this chapter, we will learn how to configure accounting in Odoo, which includes the following:

  • Installing the Accounting and Finance application
  • Examining the chart of accounts
  • Learning how the other applications create transactions in accounting
  • Adding new custom ...

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