Invoice numbering

[Maf. King]

Hi Daniel,

On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:16, Lindenaar, D.J.W. wrote:
> 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.


That is exactly what I was thinking.  A/P would be too complicated.  Just 
manually splitting the VAT, although a pain, is the better option.

>
> 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.

UK VAT is 0%, 5% and 17.5%.  I have got the VAT liability accounts set up 
based on the example in the appendix of the business docs, and it works 
fine for the automatic splits in A/P and A/R.

>
> 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.

I may download a copy of debian and give it a try. I only used Mandrake 
because it was sitting around on some CDs gathering dust....


Thanks for the pointers.
Maf.