Accounting Learn Module
Accounting Learn Module
Accounting Learn Module
Accounting Basics
Getting Started
1- Which are the three fundamental accounting pillars?
Chart of accounts, journals, taxes
Chart of accounts, journals, reports
Cash, profit, report
Journals, reports, taxes
Accounting Roles
1- Which stage of the accounting process is handled by the accounting assistant?
Annual - controlling
Yearly - closing
Daily - operational
Monthly - validation
2- What kind of reports are used by the CFO for monitoring the company’s financial
health?
Fiscal and legal reporting
Legal and management reporting
Management and analytic reporting
Analytic and fiscal reporting
Chart of Accounts
1- How can I duplicate an account in Odoo?
Through the ‘action’ button
Through the ‘deprecation’ button
Through the ‘automatization’ button
Through the ‘like’ button
2- Which columns are visible in the chart of accounts list view in Odoo?
Code, Class, Settings
Class, Name, Nature
Settings, Class, Functions
Code, Name, Type
2- What’s the best approach for accounts that you don’t use anymore?
Delete or cancel them
Archive or deprecate them
Ignore or forget them
Keep or store them
Correct! This entry contains a revenue (Product Sales), a tax, and a debt that the customer
owes to you (Account Receivable)
2. If an invoice has 2 different products, with the same tax. What will you get as journal items?
1 Receivable, 2 Sales, 1 Tax
1 Receivable, 1 Sales, 2 Taxes
2 Receivables, 1 Sales, 1 Tax
3. In the journal items, what defines the amounts your customer owes you?
A debit in Account Payable
A debit in Account Receivable
A credit in Account PayableA credit in Account Receivable
4. Where can you define the default income account that is used on an invoice?
On the product form, or the product category, or the journal.
On the product form, but not on the product category.
On the journal only.
6. Is it possible to select all "Draft" invoices and post them in one action?
No
Yes
Payments
Customer and Vendor Payments
1- How can I bypass the "In Payment" ribbon?
In the "Cash" journal configuration, set the "Outstanding Receipts/Payments"
account to "Cash", and select "Cash" when manually registering a payment
Register the payment through the “Register Payment” button, Odoo does the rest
Create a manual payment, then click on “Match Payment” and reconcile the
entries
2- On which account do registered payments not yet reconciled with bank statements
go?
Account receivable
Partner Ledger
Outstanding account
3- What is the difference between the "Register Payment" button of an invoice and
creating a manual payment from the "Customer>Payments" menu?
The "Register Payment" button creates a payment that is automatically
reconciled with the invoice
The "Register Payment" button automatically creates a payment with credentials
related to the invoice and must be reconciled manually afterwards
The "Register Payment" button automatically creates a payment with credentials
related to the invoice, reconciles it with the invoice, and reconciles it with the
bank statement as well
Online Payments
1- Where can I customize the messages displayed in case of online payment?
It’s impossible to change them, they are set by the payment acquirer themselves
In the “messages” tab of a payment acquirer method
In the “Configuration” settings
2- My product has its “Invoicing Policy” set to “Delivered Quantities”- My customer just
bought it online, what will Odoo do?
Nothing, the invoice will be created when the customer confirms delivery
Nothing, invoicing policy does not apply to online orders
Automatically create an invoice, despite the setting
3- The customer’s payment was just accepted- Where can I find further information on
the payment from within the invoice?
By clicking the ‘ transaction button’
By accessing the customer’s form
I can’t access any payment-related information from within the invoice
Payment Follow-up
1- How can you prevent sending a follow-up to a customer who’s already paid?
Reconcile all bank statements
Reconcile all payments
Reconcile all bank statements and payments
Call the customer and ask him if he already paid or not
2- If you want to send a reminder to your customer before the due date is reached:
It is not possible to send a reminder before the due date is reached
Odoo will automatically send a reminder 5 days before the due date if the
customer is not set as Good Debtor
Go to Follow-Up Action and put a minus sign “-” before the number of days
It is possible to send a reminder before the due date is reached only if the
customer already had 3 late payments
Batch Deposit of Checks
1- Based on what we have just learned, what should I do once I have received multiple
checks from my customers?
Register the payments for the corresponding invoices, generate a batch deposit
for the bank to process, then reconcile the bank statement with the batch deposit
Record the sum of all checks as one payment, then reconcile with all the
corresponding invoices so that you can match the bank statement easily
Create a batch payment document where you write down the details of all the
checks- Once you have received the bank statement, you can reconcile all the
lines with the corresponding invoices
Send all the checks back to your customers
2- What should I do when I want to register a payment that I plan to group into a batch
deposit?
Write CHK at the beginning of the Memo field
Nothing
Click on the "Register Check" button instead of the "Register Payment" button
Select "Batch Deposit" as Payment Method Type
Cash Discount
1- Which option should we choose if we want to apply the tax strictly to the reduced
amount?
Always
Never
On early payments
Fiscal Positions
1- In Odoo, what is a fiscal position?
It is a list of all my currently activated taxes
It is a set of rules that applies specific taxes according to the location and
business type of my partner
It is a registry of all applicable taxes per country
3- I have first added products to my new invoice and then populated the “Customer” or
“Vendor” field, yet the tax is incorrect- Why?
Fiscal positions only apply to services
The tax must be configured in the product’s form, and the fiscal position will be
computed when confirming the invoice
The “Customer/Vendor” field or “Fiscal Position” field in the “Other info” tab
must be populated before you add a product
Tax Report and Return
1- What is the difference between “Tax Return Periodicity” under “Settings” and the
selectable fiscal periods in “Tax Report”?
The first one configures Odoo to compute my tax return correctly; the second
one only gives me an overview of my taxes for the selected period
The first one configures Odoo to compute my tax return correctly; the second
one lets me create a tax report for the selected period
It is a ‘convenience’ feature- They both allow me to do the same thing
2- Once I settled my tax accounts in “Tax Report,” how do I know if I have to pay taxes
or claim taxes back?
According to the ‘debit’ or ‘credit’ columns of the “VAT Current Account
”By checking the “Bank and Cash” journal
I will only know once I upload it to my local governmental tax portal
3- The VAT report has already been locked, but I still have to register a transaction that
happened PRIOR to the lock date- What can I do?
Transactions prior to lock dates can still be registered without any problem, even
if locked
Create a new VAT report and register the missing transaction
Register the transaction, and Odoo will automatically post it in the next fiscal
period
Cash Basis
1- What’s the key concept of the cash basis method?
A method that doesn’t allow payment by credit card
A method that records revenues and expenses before cash is received or paid
out
A method that records revenues and expenses when a payment is linked to the
invoice
2- What kind of configuration is necessary for cash basis transactions?
'Based on payments' 'Based on invoice''Based on payments' and ' Based on
invoice'
They are helpful when directly using the feature ‘Register payment’ feature on invoices
and bills.
They are transitory accounts: payments are registered through them before being
recorded in our bank account.
I can specify a folder on my PC Odoo periodically scans and downloads new statements
when it detects new files.
3. I just loaded my bank statement file, what can I do before importing it in Odoo?
Bank Reconciliation
1. What are “Outstanding/Suspense” accounts in Odoo?
Reconciliation Models
1. What is the function of reconciliation models?
Payment Tolerance.
Allow Underpayment.
Payment Condition.
Outgoing
Ingoing
Single
Multiple
2. How many SEPA payments are available, in Odoo?
Four.
Ten.
Two.
One.
3. In Odoo, how can you handle multiple payments at once?
By going into the “Deferred revenue” and “Deferred expenses” models in configuration.
By going into the “One-shot deferred revenue and expenses” in configuration.
By clicking the “Cut-off” button found in the “Journal Item” tab of the invoice.
In this video, learn how to use deferred revenue and expenses models to spread your payments
over time.
1. What are deferred revenue and expenses?
They are one-time payments spread across a period of time that must be periodically
accounted for.
They are pre-registered payments that will be withdrawn, or wired, after a certain amount
of time.
They are payments of which the amount gradually decreases over time.
2. In my product's form, what must be configured to be able to use a deferred model with that
product?
Set a price table for deferred incomes.
Set a deferred account in “Income Account”.
Enable the “Deferred service or product” option.
Deferred revenues and Expenses
In this video, learn how to use deferred revenue and expenses models to spread your
payments over time.
2. In my product's form, what must be configured to be able to use a deferred model with that
product?
Set a price table for deferred incomes.
Set a deferred account in “Income Account”.
Enable the “Deferred service or product” option.
Analytic Accounting
Learn how to manage Analytic Accounting in Odoo.
1. Which are the two criteria for tracking journal items in a budget?
Budgetary Position and Analytic account.
Budgetary Position and Fiscal Position
Analytic account and Planned amount
2. Journal groups
Act as a filter to remove selected journals from reports.
Are created by default.
Exclude one journal at a time.
Can be collected daily in bookshops during summertime.
Reporting
Financial Reports
Learn about financial reporting in Odoo.
1. How long does the cost of goods sold remain in the Balance Sheet?
As long as possible.
Until the end of a working day.
Until the goods are sold.
2.
How can I automate the currency type of a bill based on the vendor?
By defining a currency in the “Supplier Currency” of the vendor’s form.
By defining a fiscal position in the vendor’s form.
By defining an address in the vendor’s form.
3. When creating or importing a bank statement, where can I find the “Amount Currency” and
“Foreign Currency” fields?
They must be enabled in the accounting app settings.
By clicking on the ⋮ button and checking both fields.
They are automatically added based on bills containing the same “Partner” in the
“Partner field”.
Multi-currency – Unrealized Gains/Losses
In this video, learn how to manage your unrealized gains/losses in a multi-currency environment
at the end of fiscal period.
1. What must I do upon setting a closing date for the fiscal period in my Unrealized
Gains/Losses report?
Set a reversal date on the first day after the closing.
Nothing, everything is automatic.
Set the Unrealized Gains/Losses as “Realized”.
2. Where can I check the amount of unallocated earnings once I’ve closed the fiscal year?
On the Balance Sheet, with the period set on “Last Financial Year”.
On the Profit and Loss Statement, set on “End of Last Financial Year”.
On the Balance sheet, set on “End of Last Financial Year”.
On the Proft and Loss Statement, set on “Last Financial Year”.
On the Profit and Loss Statement, set on “Last Financial Year”.