Bill amount <> check amount

[Phil]

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 22:28, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 
> So, let's take the same example again.  You underpaid January by
> $0.11.  Feb bill comes, $20.00 new charges plus the $0.11 carryover.
> You enter a new bill for $20.00, and then enter a payment of $20.11.
> The $0.11 will get back-billed to the previous month, and then the
> "leftover" $20.00 will get applied to february.
> 
> In the case where you accounted for and paid the $20.11 before you
> realized it was double-booked, you can recover in march by doing the
> reverse.  First, you fixed the january payment to match the actual
> check (so you're $0.11 short).  Then in february you over-billed
> yourself by $0.11 (double-booking the expense).  In march you can fix
> that by entering the bill as $0.11 UNDER the actual bill (if the bill
> is $20.00, you book it as $19.89), but then you still apply the
> payment as $20.00.  The system will then apply the payments to both
> the outstanding $0.11 and the newly-outstanding "$19.89."
> 
> I hope this all makes sense, now?
> 

Yes it does - thanks.  I'll do this.

Phil