Thanks Michael, that's very helpful for my understanding! Chris
On Sat, 21 Oct 2023, 23:17 Michael or Penny Novack, < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I tried that, but in the Employee -> New expenses voucher -> Edit > > Expense Voucher list, right-clicking on the Description block doesn't > > bring up any context menu (there isn't a memo block on this page). Of > > course, trying to do this in the target expense account doesn't work as > > the transaction is automatically marked read-only. > > > > Maybe this is a bug? > > > > Chris > > Well -- gnucash is just the "general ledger" part of a business system > (not an entire business system). So I would not consider failure to > associate documents to transactions WITHIN gnucash to be a bug. > > Maybe turn this around? It is the association that you really need, > whether within or outside of gnucash. One of the problems here is that > gnucash is "virtual journal" and it with the journal entry (the entire > transaction) I would expect to associate documentation << not with parts > of the transaction -- I do understand that you can think of receipts > belonging to separate parts but "receipts" just a special case of > documentation. > > Let's say in the description field you put a "number" (say "receipt file > #1234). And you have a file of receipts which to which your assign > numbers. In other words, you have a reference "here is where the > receipts related to this general ledger may be found.In reverse, the > receipt record should include a reference to the transaction (date, etc.) > > If this seems odd to you (not having them IN the general ledger) think > of pen and oink on paper days. You would expect to be pasting receipts > into the ledger book? > > This is an AUDITING matter (given a transaction, can you produce the > receipts associated with a transaction) > > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
