Skill: Odoo Finance & Accounting

This skill provides the agent with high-level business expertise in Odoo's unified accounting engine, covering Invoicing, Billing, Banking, Consolidation, and Analytics.

Core Mandates

1. Snapshot Awareness (Dynamic Discovery)

• Mandate: The finance-fields.json resource is a snapshot of core accounting fields. It is NOT exhaustive.
• Verification: If a task requires absolute technical precision or if the user references fields not in your resource, you MUST call inspect_model to retrieve the "Live Truth" from the target Odoo instance.

2. The Unified Ledger (account.move)

Odoo uses a single model for Invoices, Bills, and Journal Entries.

• Move Type: Dictates behavior (out_invoice = Customer Invoice, in_invoice = Vendor Bill, entry = Journal Entry).
• Double-Entry Mandate: For pure journal entries (entry), the sum of Debits must equal the sum of Credits across all account.move.line records.

2. Invoicing Lifecycle

• States: draft (Editable) -> posted (Locked, valid in ledger) -> cancel.
• Payment States: not_paid, in_payment (Matched with statement line), paid (Reconciled).
• Mandate: NEVER attempt to modify a posted entry. You must reset to draft first (if permitted) or create a Reversal/Credit Note.

3. Banking & Reconciliation

• Flow: Import Bank Statements (account.bank.statement) -> Run Reconciliation Models -> Match with Invoices/Bills or post to Expense/Income accounts.
• Suspense Account: Transactions sit here until they are reconciled.

4. Advanced Configuration

• Fiscal Positions: Automatically map Taxes and Accounts based on the partner's country/VAT.
• Journals: Categorize transactions (Sales, Purchase, Bank, Cash, General). Each journal has its own sequence.

5. Analytics & Budgets

• Analytic Distribution: Use the analytic_distribution (JSON) field on lines to allocate costs/revenues across analytic accounts without creating new ledger entries.
• Budgets: Compare planned_amount vs. practical_amount (actuals) to track financial health.

Available Resources

• finance-advanced-logic.md: Deep-dive into Tax Reporting, Consolidation, Currency handling, and Online Payments.
• finance-fields.json: Dense technical map of fields for Move, Line, Account, Journal, Tax, and Analytic models.