Apologies Derek, I hadn't seen you post before putting up my own reply. I tend to go through my emails serially. I'll remember to switch the grouping by threads on in my client.
David On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 19:41 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > David, > > On Tue, June 21, 2022 7:20 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > Eric, > > > [snip] > > To record the bad debt you would create a transaction which credited > > Accounts > > Receivable and debited Expense:Bad Debts. This will cancel out the amount > > credited to Income in the original invoice. I had no difficulty creating > > such an > > entry in V4.10 with a test account setup for the business features. There > > was no > > limitation on the account selection when I created the transaction in the > > Accounts Receivable register. > > Just creating the transaction directly is not sufficient -- you still have > to map it to the Customer to "pay" the invoice. > > > The Help manual > > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-payment1.html has > > a > > description of how to do this using the process payment process which does > > have > > a restriction on processing the payment to an expense account. The key is > > to > > select an asset account (e.g. cheque account) when creating the > > transaction in > > Process payment and then after the transaction is created change the > > account > > from the asset account to the Expense:Bad Debt account. It is only the > > process > > payment procedure which has a restriction on the type of account you can > > select > > for a payment and there is no way that GnuCash could internally > > differentiate > > between a payment to an Bad Debts expense account and any other expense > > account > > as there isn't a specific account type for bad debts. > > Yes, which is the process I pointed out several hours ago. :) > > > David Cousens > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > _______________________________________________ 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.
