Thanks, Derek. The issue has been around for years, I guess. Looking at invoices, for a cash basis user the invoice should get posted to payables when received and the payable is reversed to expense on the date the payment is actually made.
For an accrual basis user the expense could be posted immediately to the (past, present, or future) "due date". If it's in the future it won't show up in current P&L, which is correct. I found that I could not edit the dates on the expense transactions that were created by the business logic, so all 4 quarters show up as expenses on the day I posted the invoice. That doesn't seem right in anyone's world. But the invoice logic is overkill for me. I'll go back to scheduled transactions. For my purposes scheduling 4 transactions is fine. Keith On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:23 PM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > Keith Bellairs <ke...@bellairs.org> writes: > > > My property tax is payable in 4 installments -- August, November, > February, > > and May. I have tried to set this up with my town as the vendor and 4 > > payments. > > > > When I ran my income statement for last year, I see that the future > > liabilities have been posted with the date that the bill was posted, not > > the date that the bill is due. So all of my 2019 payments show as tax > > expense in 2018. > > > > Is there a way to have the vendor bills show up dated with the due date > > instead of the date posted? > > See: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95700 > > This is talking about customer invoices, but vendor bills use the same > logic. Note the date of the bug report. > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com > Computer and Internet Security Consultant > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.