invoices: "P" and "I"

Jannick Asmus jannick.news at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 13:22:44 EST 2008



On 19.02.2008 20:48, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> what do the attributes "P" and "I" of invoices exactly mean? What effect
>>>> does a switch between them have?
>>> IIRC, they mark a txn as either "Payment" or "Invoice".  
>> What exactly does that mean? Maybe there is some link to some documentation?
> 
> Which word don't you understand?  

Understanding "txn" as taxation was my problem.

> The transaction is either
> from an "Invoice", or it's from a "Payment".  You shouldn't
> touch these entries.  Then again, you shouldn't ever make any
> manual entries to an A/R or A/P account.
> 
>>> I wasn't aware that you could change them manually.
>> Easy from P to I, but reverse it seems to be a difficult. I had to 
>> "erase" a part of a booking to amend the accounting method.
> 
> See above about never manually making entries into a/r or a/p.....
> 
>> J.
> 
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> 
> -derek
> 

J.


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