Hello Oliver, Am 26.05.21 um 13:13 schrieb Oliver G. Parker: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list and am a fairly new user of GnuCash.
Welcome here. > I am not an > accountant but am using the software to manage my company finances. I am > trying to do most of the book keeping myself so I can hand stuff on to my > accountant in a good state of readiness for him to produce full and formal > accounts, thus saving his time and my money. > > I have a large quantity of data entered into GnuCash but am struggling with > my 'Recoverable Costs' account. I run a lettings agency and if I spend > money on behalf of a client then the amount is listed as a 'recoverable > cost' in this account, which is then charged on to the customer. > > One of the headings at the top of this account is "Type", and for each > transaction it will have either a "?", "P" or "I" in it. I can change these > by clicking on them but they sometimes won't change back and there seems to > be a relationship between these and other transactions elsewhere in > GnuCash, whereby some of the transactions in the 'Recoverable Costs' > account when given a particular "Type" then can't be changed elsewhere. No, this is no asset account. Only A/P and A/R have this column and you should usually not manually change them. Please read https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_bus_features.html to understand the fundamentals of invoicing in GnuCash. > At the moment this is a nuisance as I have some transactions which now seem > to be fixed and not changeable. However I understand that this > functionality probably relates to an accountancy practice and if I > understood what was going on then I could make it work to my advantage. > > Is anyone able to help me by posting a link to an explanation of what is > going on? Thanks! > > > Oli. Regards Frank _______________________________________________ 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.
