Creating journal entries

While Odoo will create many journal entries automatically when you perform various operations in the system, it is inevitable that, at some point, you (or your accountant) will wish to create a manual journal entry. A manual journal entry allows you to adjust account balances in a way that can be easily tracked and audited.

For our example, we are going to create a journal entry that will account for a small investment by one of the company owners. When someone puts money as an investment into a company, they are not buying anything and they are not selling anything. While there are other potential methods that can be used to reflect an investment, a simple journal entry is a straightforward way to accurately record ...

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