Invoice numbering

[Lindenaar, D.J.W.]

On the first I've not got anything to say other than this improvement
would help me as well.
On the second there seem to be two possibilities, the first would be to
create a split transaction transferring the VAT to the corresponding
account by hand (it seems to me the amounts would be split out on the
receipt you got when paying). This would induce only a little work
compared to the second option, a A/P.
This Is (of course) possible, but I think the only (good) reason to use
A/P is because one could lose track of bills to pay. However when paying
cash this isn't really possible since the payment and the receiving of
the bill happen at the same time. It could be done anyway, but that
would mean that you would have to create a bill in gnc for every receipt
you get and the pay that bill from your cash account. 

I don't know how the VAT is arranged in your country, but here in
Holland there are three tariffs i.e. 0%, 6% and 19%. If there is a very
limited amount of different tariffs you could also create a different
cost-account for each group of products and transfer all the VAT at once
each month or so. At least, in Holland this is allowed, but you should
check.

Greeting Daniel
p.s. I've got an installation of debian and the installation was a
breeze, Just using apt (debians package mngr) it downloaded it,
installed dependencies and gnc 1.8.7 started without a hickup.

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[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces at lists.gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Maf. King
Sent: woensdag 29 oktober 2003 12:52
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Invoice numbering

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Hi List,

I've been using GnuCash 1.6.x for personal accounts for a couple of
years 
now, and want to offer up my thanks & praise to the developers for a
great 
bit of OSS.

I have recently started dual-running my business accounts on 1.8.1
(mandrake 
9.1), in the hope to be able to move away from the Beast of Redmond 
sometime soon.

I have hit a couple of questions, which whilst not show stoppers, are 
causing a bit of a headache for me...

1.  In the business features section, the A/R and A/P "new [invoice | 
bill ]" creation dialogues, the Invoice ID seems to be a single counter
- 
i.e. I can't now have a nice monotonically increasing invoice number, as
any 
bills which arrive "get in the way".  I can't see any reference to this
in 
the release notes or lists - is it something which has been (or will be 
soon) changed to give two individual counts?

2.  I see from the mainling lists that there is no way to automatically 
split out VAT on a "cash" basis transaction.  Does anybody have any
hints 
about clever ways to do this, or how to run a credit card & cash as 
additional A/P accounts 


I have tried to upgrade to 1.8.7, but got lost in dependancy hell!  I'll

probably be buying SuSE9 soon anyway, so will at least get 1.8.5
easilly!

Thanks for your time,
Maf.


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Maf. King
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