Thanks for the clarification. Regards, Adrien
> On Jul 1, 2020 w27d183, at 11:25 AM, Geert Janssens > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Op woensdag 1 juli 2020 18:02:35 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > > Apologies, > > > > My understanding of the Business Features was that there is one Accounts > > Receivable account of *type* ‘Accounts Receivable’ and there can be only > > one account of that type, and that the Business Features are not cognizant > > of ‘other Accounts Receivable’ accounts of type ‘asset’, and that one > > shouldn’t make manual entries in the main AR account. > > > > I considered currencies and understood them to be sub-accounts of AR created > > by GnuCash. > > > > Where is my understanding incorrect? > > > There is no restriction on the number of AR accounts you can create. GnuCash > doesn't enforce a single one, nor does it assume where in the account > hierarchy it should be. And most reports handle this properly as far as I > know. > > In practice the most common use case for multiple AR accounts is as Frank > pointed out: you can have one per currency you do business in. In that case > you post invoices for customers in currency A to an AR account denominated in > currency A, and invoices for customers in currency B to an AR account > denominated in currency B. > > You are correct one should try to avoid making manual changes to accounts of > type A/R. And one can also create asset type accounts and treat them as A/R > accounts manually and those are effectively completely ignored by the > business features. > > Regards, > > Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
