Process vendor payments and negative values

[Derek Atkins]

Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> writes:

> The hassle I have is that the credit was passed about 6 months ago,
> and the payments have balanced out, but the negative value from 6
> months ago isn't taken into account when payments were allocated since
> that date.

Huh?  I dont understand.  So what if it was passed 6 months ago?

> As a result, my payable aging looks like this:
>
> 30 days: R80.30
> 60 days: R0.00
> 90 days: R0.0
> 120 days+: R-80.30

Wait, how did you get it into this state?  When you posted the R80.30
30 days ago it should have balanced into the R-80.30 -- unless you
adjusted the payment AFTER you posted the invoice.

> And when I start up gnucash, I get a popup saying bills are due, when
> they are not.

Well, they are, technically, according to the above output.

> Is there same way of clearing off this old negative amount? I'd rather
> not delete all the payments and then reraise them, as the accounts
> have been reconciled.

Unpost and repost the 80.30 from 30 days ago to get it to see the
adjusted -80.30 from 120 days ago...

> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Graham

-derek

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