Fair comment Adrien. On Tue, 9 Mar. 2021, 2:55 am Adrien Monteleone, < [email protected]> wrote:
> You should refrain from making manual entries or edits in AR/AP. It > isn't that you can't or that anything will blow up, but you may forget > that the Business Features will not see those edits/transactions where > you might expect them to. > > If you really need to make manual edits/entries, create an 'Other AR/AP' > account, as a child of the main account, and make sure it is of type > 'Asset/Liability' and *not* of type 'AR/AP'. (there can be only 1 of > each of those) > > With the method listed below, the Business Features (and their reports) > 'think' the customer paid when they did not. > > See my other reply describing how to close these out properly in GnuCash. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 3/8/21 2:33 AM, Alan Hopkins wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm new to GNU Cash but I just tested a method that worked and I > think > > is valid. > > I went to the client's invoice and paid the full amount ($120) which > > then was entered by GNUCash into the Accounts Receivable. > > I then went into the Accounts Receivable account, located the > payment, > > looked at the Splits (DR $120 Assets:CashOnHand, CR $120 A/R) and > > changed the splits to be Debit CashOnHand $60 Debit Bad Debts $60 > > Credit Accounts Receivable $120. > > The invoice is recorded as paid and no longer appears in reminders > and > > all the accounts are in the correct state. > > Maybe that may be of help! > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
