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Jatin3128 58491723e7 feat(accounts): add Bank Charges account for Payment Entry deductions (#57840)
* feat(accounts): add Bank Charges account for Payment Entry deductions

Add an optional Bank Charges Account field on Company. When a Payment
Entry has a difference between the paid and received amount (e.g. a
same-currency Internal Transfer where the bank deducted a fee), that
amount now books to the Bank Charges account in the deductions table
instead of always going to the Exchange Gain/Loss account. Left blank,
behavior is unchanged.

Mirrors the resolution on both the server (set_exchange_gain_loss) and
client (set_exchange_gain_loss_deduction) so the deduction row is
pre-filled consistently before and after save. A user's manual account
edit on an existing deduction row is preserved across recalculation,
same as before this change.

* fix(accounts): only route Payment Entry difference to Bank Charges for same-currency transfers

Cross-currency Payment Entries were also matching the unconditional
bank_charges_account precedence, misrouting a genuine exchange
gain/loss into the Bank Charges account. Only prefer Bank Charges
Account when paid_from and paid_to share a currency; cross-currency
differences continue to book to Exchange Gain/Loss Account.

* test(payment_entry): assert against actual exchange gain/loss account, not a hardcoded name

CI failed: _Test Company's exchange_gain_loss_account is auto-provisioned
as "Exchange Gain/Loss - _TC" by the standard chart of accounts, not the
"_Test Exchange Gain/Loss - _TC" account used only by a sibling test.

* fix(accounts): auto-set Bank Charges Account from chart of accounts default

The standard chart of accounts already ships a "Bank Charges" ledger
account, but set_default_accounts() never picked it up into the
Company's bank_charges_account field, unlike its write_off_account and
exchange_gain_loss_account siblings. New and existing companies now
get it auto-populated the same way.

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Co-authored-by: test <test@test.com>
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Accounts module contains masters and transactions to manage a traditional double entry accounting system.

Accounting heads are called "Accounts" and they can be groups in a tree like "Chart of Accounts"

Entries are:

  • Journal Entries
  • Sales Invoice (Itemised)
  • Purchase Invoice (Itemised)

All accounting entries are stored in the General Ledger

Payment Ledger

Transactions on Receivable and Payable Account types will also be stored in Payment Ledger. This is so that payment reconciliation process only requires update on this ledger.

Key Fields

Field Description
account_type Receivable/Payable
account Accounting head
party Party Name
voucher_no Voucher No
against_voucher_no Linked voucher(secondary effect)
amount can be +ve/-ve

Design

debit and credit have been replaced with account_type and amount. against_voucher_no is populated for all entries. So, outstanding amount can be calculated by summing up amount only using against_voucher_no.

Ex:

  1. Consider an invoice for ₹100 and a partial payment of ₹80 against that invoice. Payment Ledger will have following entries.
voucher_no against_voucher_no amount
SINV-01 SINV-01 100
PAY-01 SINV-01 -80
  1. Reconcile a Credit Note against an invoice using a Journal Entry

An invoice for ₹100 partially reconciled against a credit of ₹70 using a Journal Entry. Payment Ledger will have the following entries.

voucher_no against_voucher_no amount
SINV-01 SINV-01 100
CR-NOTE-01 CR-NOTE-01 -70
JE-01 CR-NOTE-01 +70
JE-01 SINV-01 -70