Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-07 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Michael, I have a sole professional services consulting practice, B2B, with clients. No product sales. My approach to cash accounting has worked for me for more than two decades; it might not work as well for others. Regards, Rich I understood what you were doing worked for you. I was

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: But somebody who like Rich is invoicing "clients" is perhaps not doing sales but a service and only needs "income from clients" on a cash basis. Could do that by having a contra account (usually zero) with a name like "client income not yet

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 1/6/2022 3:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, R. Victor Klassen wrote: The only problem being if you want to send the invoice to your customer, it says “invoice in progress”. Since I don't use GC to prepare client invoices it's not an issue for me. I use LaTeX for invoices.

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, R. Victor Klassen wrote: The only problem being if you want to send the invoice to your customer, it says “invoice in progress”. Since I don't use GC to prepare client invoices it's not an issue for me. I use LaTeX for invoices. Rich

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The only problem being if you want to send the invoice to your customer, it says “invoice in progress”. So I do find myself posting, printing, unposting (only around the end of the year) and re-posting as necessary. > On Jan 6, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Don Gray wrote: > > Rich and Victor, > >>

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-06 Thread Don Gray
Rich and Victor, > What I do, on the advice of my previous accountant who's now retired, is not > to enter an A/P or A/R invoice until payment is made or received, > respectively. That way what you see is what you have. Simple solution - I unposted the invoices which removed them from the

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, Don Gray wrote: The problem stems from the report being off by several thousand dollars as I’ve posted invoices but not received the payments. Don, What I do, on the advice of my previous accountant who's now retired, is not to enter an A/P or A/R invoice until payment is

Re: [GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-04 Thread R. Victor Klassen
I normally re-post invoices to the 1st of the year if not paid before, and any bills that are due and paid after the year end I also post to the 1st. Rarely do I find something that needs to be moved the other direction (although it is possible, I just can’t think of an instance off hand).

[GNC] Cash Basis Accounting

2022-01-04 Thread Don Gray
For 2021 year end account I need to generate a profit/loss report. No problem as a standard report exists. The problem stems from the report being off by several thousand dollars as I’ve posted invoices but not received the payments. Searching the internet I found