How Analytic Simulation should be used?

Question

Odoo 16 Profit and Loss report has an option to Include Analytic Simulation.
It should include analytic items without accounting move lines. How ever it is not clear how they will be mapped to PL report without CoA information.
And there is no documentation on how and why to create analytic items for simulation.

Ray Carnes (ray) · Accepted Answer

Take a look at this video, which I have fast forwarded to the demo of the Analytic Simulation:

It was introduced in Odoo 16 and allows you to add Analytic Lines linked to a GL account that represent amounts that might be added.
This means you can add your expected profits and losses in Q4 and see a "simulated" report for the entire year based on the assumption that the manually created entries accurately represent the entries that would be created in Q4.
It's basically allowing you to time t

Jan Veddeler · Answer

You can add the financial account when creating an analytical item. This is actually quite handy for internal billing between departments, etc. You can simulate P&Ls for each department

Paul Brown · Answer

I've looked through the video and all of the information that I could find on the internet and I am no clearer to understanding how the Analytic Simulation works. It is an option in the reports but there is no documentation whatsoever about it, still with Odoo 18. Odoo AI has no idea about analytic simulations either!

Jorge Torres · Answer

I do not know also for what it serve Analytic Simulation. But, if you want include only analytic item without accounting move lines. You can set "group by" and "analytic filter". If those option do not appear you can set in report configuration.

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