AP Bills Not Marked "Paid"

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 8 15:50:29 EST 2009


Hi,

Quoting Blackhawke <blackhawke at vetl.org>:

> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:30 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Well, go back in the register to around the first bill that
>> doesn't show up paid and look for payments around that time.
>> What does your AP account look like around that timeframe?
>
> Well, I have a series of Paid Bills, then one that isn't paid (we're
> back to Jan '07 here), then more Paid Bills and one that isn't Paid.
> Then, by March '07 the links between Bills and Payments peters out and
> stops completely.
>
> The first Payment has a couple of splits, but I can't find any Bills
> that match the amounts. (But there are bills preceding the Payment time
> that are marked paid!) Second payment has only one split and, again, I
> can't find any matching Bill amount. And again, I can't find a Bill that
> matches the amount.
>
> These Payments differ from the later ones in that I can track usually
> match the splits to Bills.

All payment transactions will only have one split into AP.  Then it
will create another transaction to "move" money from one lot to another
iteratively until it runs out of money to balance out.

Can you show a screen shot of the AP account from around Jan 07?

You must have the balancing transactions in there, and they much be
wrong.

> -=Blackhawke

-derek

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