Check the tax box in the Inventory section in addition to the tax box in the AR and AP sections.
The accounts come from the chart of accounts. You need at least one account for inventory, income, expenses, cost of goods and forex. There must be one account for a default account regardless wether you have inventory or not. Dieter Simader http://www.sql-ledger.org (780) 472-8161 DWS Systems Inc. Accounting Software Fax: 478-5281 =========== On a clear disk you can seek forever =========== On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > Couple of quick questions: > > (a) I'm entering a bill to pay using Accounts Payable. The supplier that > I'm using has got a tax called "NCG" ticked. In the account details > for NCG "include in drop down menus - payables/tax" is selected. But > when I enter the bill, it does not give me NCG tax (or any tax) as an > option, and no tax is included by sql-ledger in the transaction. Why > would the tax not be showing? The odd thing is that I believe while > I was testing, this function *did* work, I entered an invoice and it > dealt with the tax properly. > > (b) I deleted the accounts relating to inventory and COGS, as mine is a > service business, but as a result I get errors when I try to save my > preferences because it needs to have something listed for "Inventory > account" and "Expense account". There is nothing in the drop down > menus for these items now. I tried to (manually) insert a valid > account number for each of these in the Defaults table, but even so > they don't come up in the Preferences drop-down menus. Where does > the list of available "Inventory account" and "Expense account"s > come from? > > TIA > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf
