Newbie question

Maf. King maf at chilwell.net
Fri Apr 2 17:27:16 EST 2004


On Friday 02 Apr 2004 18:05, cwchia at hotpop.com wrote:
> I have a checking account and am using it to pay my photocopier rental
> and usage charges. The monthly rental is 104.00 and the usage charges
> varies according to the volume printed on the copier. The company that
> owns the machine usually bill me every two months but occassionally they
> will invoice me monthly.
>
> Therefore at times I'll be issuing 1 check (for the sum of 262.84) for
> several heads of payment like this:-
>
> - rental for Jan 2004    - 104.00 - usage for jan 2004     -  25.46
> - rental for Feb 2004	 - 104.00
> - usage for Feb 2004	 -  30.41
>
> Total 262.87
>
> Rental is recorded in Expenses-Rental-Photocopier
> usage is recorded in Expenses-Stationary
>
> How do I record these seperate heads of payment?
>
> Thanks.
>

Hi - 

either use a split transaction - which will let you assisgn parts of the 
transaction to different accounts, exactly as you show above.

*Or* use the Business -> Vendors section, which will cope very well with 
exactly this situation.

Hope that is of some help

Maf.




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