The accounting reports Odoo Community leaves out, and how to get them free

If you run Odoo 19 Community, you already know where the Odoo Community accounting reports run out. Invoices post, payments register and journals fill up, but there is no general ledger to print, no trial balance to hand the auditor and no aged receivable listing for credit control.

So teams export journal items to a spreadsheet and rebuild the same reports by hand every month. That works until a formula breaks, a late entry lands after the export, or an auditor asks where a number came from.

This article walks through what finance teams need at month-end, what Odoo 19 Community ships, and how SBS Account Community, a free module from Star Bit Solutions, fills each gap.

What finance teams need at month-end, and what Community ships

A month-end close is a routine: post everything, check it, report it, then lock the period so nobody changes it. Each step needs a specific report or control.

Accountants need a general ledger and a trial balance to prove the books balance. Credit control needs a partner ledger and aged balances. Cash-handling businesses need daily cash and bank listings, and auditors want a journal audit and a tax summary.

Finance managers add fixed-asset depreciation, budgets measured against actual postings and a way to chase overdue customers. Administrators need fiscal years and lock dates, so a closed period stays closed.

Odoo 19 Community gives you the ledger data underneath all of this: journals, invoices, bills and payments. In Odoo, the reporting layer, assets, budgets and follow-ups come from Enterprise apps such as account_reports, account_asset, account_budget and account_followup. That is the gap.

The missing Odoo Community accounting reports, one by one

Here is each missing piece, and what SBS Account Community does about it. Every report opens from a wizard under Accounting > Reporting and prints to PDF.

General ledger

The general ledger is the record of every movement under each account. Without it, you cannot trace a balance back to the entries that make it up.

The module's General Ledger groups every movement under its account with a running balance and optional opening balances. Sort by date or by journal and partner, and narrow it to particular accounts or partners.

Trial balance

The trial balance is the first check at month-end. It shows debit, credit and balance per account for the chosen period, for every account, only accounts with movements, or only those with a non-zero balance.

Partner ledger and aged balances

The Partner Ledger prints one section per partner, with every receivable or payable movement and a closing balance. Choose receivable, payable or both, include reconciled entries if you need them, and show currency.

The Aged Partner Balance buckets outstanding balances by age, with a period length you set. Aged Receivable and Aged Payable have their own menu entries that open the same report pre-scoped.

Day, cash and bank books

Businesses that handle cash rely on daily movement listings. The Day Book lists every movement for a date range, and the Cash Book and Bank Book narrow that to your cash and bank accounts.

Journal audit and tax report

The Journals Audit prints one section per journal, listing every entry with its lines and tax detail, sorted by date or by entry number. It is the listing an auditor asks for.

The Tax Report summarises sale and purchase net and tax amounts. The General Ledger, Trial Balance, Journals Audit and Tax Report all take target-moves, date-range, journal and account filters.

Fixed assets and depreciation

Asset categories drive linear or degressive depreciation with a computed board. The periodic entries are generated into the accounts you configure, rather than keyed in by hand.

For example, on the linear method, an 18,000 asset with a 1,500 salvage value over five yearly periods gives 3,300 a year.

Budgets

Budgetary positions group accounts. Budget lines then compare planned amounts with what was actually posted over a period, so variances come from real postings, not a separate spreadsheet.

Customer follow-ups

A ladder of follow-up levels is keyed to days overdue. A manual follow-up worklist shows who needs chasing, and each level sends the letter or email you define for it.

Fiscal years and lock dates

Define fiscal years, then set tax, sales, purchase, general and hard lock dates. Once set, they stop postings into a closed period.

Recurring payments

Templates define a period and an interval. A recurring payment expands into dated lines, and a scheduled action generates the payments.

A hierarchical chart of accounts with PDF and XLSX export

The CoA Tree shows your chart of accounts built on account groups you define, with debit, credit and balance per line and optional opening balances. It prints to PDF and exports to XLSX.

The module also restricts individual users to a named set of journals, so clerks only see and post to the journals that concern them. It prints the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss to PDF, and report structures are records, not code: you can build your own statement layouts from account types, sub-reports and sign rules.