On Nov 10, 3:26 pm, John Rakestraw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Rick -- > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Rick F wrote: > > Thanks for the response. > > > This answers the precise question asked, which invoices have not been > > paid, but the * loses all information about what reimbursement went > > with what invoice. That can lead to some tricky conversations: > > Yes, after reading Russell's response to your query I realized that there > are complications my approach glosses over. I have few enough of these > transactions that the connections are pretty obvious even in retrospect, > but I'm contemplating recording more of the metadata -- partly (I should > admit) simply because I can. > > -- > John Rakestraw
Great topic & responses Payable/Receivable tracking has been difficult for me I've just been tagging the initial entry as "paid" or "received" and running reports to excluded those entries. I like John's method, if the entry is cleared, it's paid/received. Although it seems reconciling might become more confusing? I use metadata methods similar to Russell with invoice numbers to help track entries. As far as consistency, completion via emacs is very helpful. I don't speak lisp but I've written some emacs keyboard macros to run up a list of all possible metadata for each entry, those that are not needed are deleted. I'm sure one of those snippet type applications could do something similar? So, in the end, if I need to match up invoices with their respective receipts, I would format the output to a table with the invoice tags for sorting/grouping etc. Tracy
