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Project Cost & Accounting Workflow

A connected project-finance workflow covering project and agreement expenses, petty cash, client invoices, vendor bills, retentions, payment vouchers, and management reporting.

Status
Developed, extended, and supported
Odoo version
Odoo 14
My role
Techno-functional analysis, Odoo development, accounting workflow integration, report customization, validation, and production support.

Business need

Project and finance teams needed expenses, agreements, supplier costs, customer billing, retentions, and payments to remain connected to the correct project while giving management a reliable view of cost, revenue, and outstanding transactions.

How it works

  1. 01

    Establish the project structure

    Connect the project, agreement, operating unit, responsible users, commercial references, and accounting context.

  2. 02

    Capture project costs

    Record project and agreement expenses, petty cash, supplier costs, vendor bills, and supporting documents against the correct source.

  3. 03

    Prepare client billing

    Create and validate client invoices with the required project, agreement, commercial, tax, and retention information.

  4. 04

    Document payments

    Process payment, receipt, cheque, and post-dated-cheque vouchers with traceable references and printable outputs.

  5. 05

    Review cost and revenue

    Consolidate expenses, invoices, payments, retentions, and balances into project and agreement summaries.

  6. 06

    Report and support

    Deliver customized views, PDF and Excel reports, audit analysis, and controlled corrections for finance and project users.

What I built

  • I extended projects and agreements with connected views for project expenses, agreement expenses, petty cash, client invoices, vendor bills, retentions, and payment records.
  • I developed expense classifications and links that keep each cost traceable to the correct project, agreement, operating unit, responsible party, and accounting document.
  • I customized client-invoice and vendor-bill forms, validations, retention handling, totals, and supporting accounting fields.
  • I implemented payment, receipt, cheque, and post-dated-cheque voucher outputs for controlled transaction documentation.
  • I built project and agreement summary views, spreadsheet-style analysis, audit views, PDF documents, and Excel reporting.

Modules covered

  • Projects
  • Agreements
  • Expenses
  • Petty Cash
  • Accounting and Invoicing
  • Client Invoices
  • Vendor Bills
  • Retentions
  • Payment and Receipt Vouchers
  • PDF and Excel Reporting

What I supported

  • I resolved incorrect project or agreement totals, missing document links, validation problems, access issues, and report inconsistencies.
  • I corrected client-invoice, vendor-bill, retention, petty-cash, and voucher behaviour while protecting posted accounting records.
  • I supported finance and project users with transaction tracing, controlled fixes, report refinements, and module upgrades.

Technical deliverables

  • Project and agreement expense models
  • Client-invoice and vendor-bill customization
  • Retention and petty-cash controls
  • Payment, receipt, cheque, and PDC vouchers
  • Project finance summaries, audit views, and reports
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