Another unbalanced balance sheet

[Derek Atkins]

Bug #121420   	

You cannot assign a payment to a specific invoice, which is what I bet
you're trying to do..  Payments will always be applied in a FIFO,
oldest invoice first.

-derek

Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm> writes:

> Derek,
>
> Thanks.  As you have probably noticed from my subsequent email, I 
> managed to sort this out.  Sorry to put you to the trouble of a 
> response.  On the subject of "Accumulate splits" I have noticed in the 
> past that when processing a payment gnucash is just as likely to create 
> multiple transactions out of one payment - I noticed that on the 5th 
> January, it split one cheque into 4 transactions!  I haven't used 1.8.10 
> long enough yet to know whether this problem has gone away.  Another 
> problem with processing payments has been that the program does not 
> always mark an invoice as paid in the customer invoices window - these 
> two behaviours are often associated. i.e. If a cheque is broken up into 
> multiple transactions, it won't be marked as paid.
>
> Derrick
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>>Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello all
>>>
>>> I've got another unbalanced balance sheet, this time in my business
>>> accounts.  I've loaded the backup accounts files back several days
>>> and found the newest one in which the accounts balance.  It
>>> happened three days ago.  Is it possible to use the log files
>>> created (or any other method) to work out which transaction(s)
>>> caused the inbalance?  I upgraded to 1.8.10 at about that time, or
>>> a little earlier, so it may have something to do with the bug that
>>> Derek reported.  What does "Accumulate Splits" mean, anway?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Check your AR and AP accounts and see if you have imbalanced
>>transactions.  Most likely you are seeing one of the side effects of
>>the bug I "reported" yesterday.
>>
>>"Accumulate Splits" (which is the default) means that if you have
>>multiple invoice line-items that go into the same account the invoice
>>code will accumulate all those entries into a single split.
>>Unfortunately this "default" is broken in 1.8.10.
>>
>>-derek
>>
>>
>>
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