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We would like to define some organizational units within our company,  each having separate customers, products, invoices, etc, but sharing the same COA, since they are still part of the same legal entity.

I was thinking I could create multiple companies and uncheck the box "This company has its own chart of accounts" in the accounting settings. I was assuming then when unchecked, Odoo would just use the COA of the parent company, but this seems not to be the case. Whatever I try to do I get warnings that I first have to define a COA for the company or I'm not able to select any accounts.

Can someone explain the purpose of the checkbox "This company has its own chart of accounts" if it's not possible to use a company without it's own COA?

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Steven,

When you want to keep accounting data separate between entities, you use multicompany and each company will have their own CoA.

Any company will always have transactions in accounts and hence its inevitable to assign a CoA.

For your own purpose, I would propose to use 'tags' smartly or 'analytic accounts' so to keep every organization unit separate within 1 company and you can drill down reports of each units separately.

Hope this helps.

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SerpentCS.com

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Ermin Trevisan
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You may also want to check the following OCA project: https://github.com/OCA/operating-unit

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SGPsascha

Could this graphic (https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/farel9/common/FAESC/img/ent_entstr_defensdm_nhdd_3_20038510.png) be helpful to understand this project in general?

SGPsascha

Don´t understand why the link isn´t working out from here - with copy & paste into the browser it´s fine!

Ermin Trevisan

You should remove the ) at the end of your link.

Ermin Trevisan

No, this picture does not help, because this speaks for itself. Legal axis = companies, functional axis = departments, division axis = Organizational Units

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Thanks everyone for responding. So I guess I may conclude the flag "This company has its own chart of account" is pointless since there is no use for having a company without it's own COA.

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