Reconciling single cheque covering multiple payments

[Des Dougan]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:40 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Des Dougan <des at DouganConsulting.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 09:41 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> To re-phrase: For the business accounting system to work, you __MUST__
> >> enter __ALL__ business transactions (A/R and A/P, Invoices, Bills, and
> >> Payments) through the Business menu options.  You __MUST NOT__ enter
> >> any transactions by hand or import them.
> >
> > On digging further into my error(s), I have found that I have 9 of my
> > invoices that show not paid (although they have been), going back to
> > July. While it would be reasonably straightforward to fix the two from
> > my original posting, fixing the others so that they show as paid is
> > likely to be more convoluted. 
> >
> > If I leave the invoices in their current state will it mess up anything
> > else? Should I try to fix them? I won't be able to go back that far for
> > bank reconciliation files, I don't believe.
> 
> yes, it will mean that going forward posted payments will get applied
> to the old invoices and not the new one..  Unless you start from a new
> customer and never post invoices to that "customer" ever again.

Thanks, Derek. Painful lesson learned!


Des
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