Bill System Questions

[David T.]

Derek and Andrew--

Thanks for the answers here; it looks like it would make sense to work back at least to the beginning of 2009. 

Given the way that the invoicing/AP features work, if I typically download transactions from my banks, it would seemingly make sense to post invoices before importing transactions. Then, the import should match to the existing posted transaction...

David


--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Bill System Questions
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Des Dougan" <des at douganconsulting.com>, "Users Gnucash" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 4:21 PM
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > As I try to convert over to using this module, I would
> like to ask
> > others whether there are any positive or negative
> reasons for engaging
> > this retroactively. I am thinking about applying the
> invoicing
> > retroactively to the beginning of the year (and
> perhaps further), but
> > wonder whether the effort is worth it. I honestly
> don't know what the
> > pros or cons for this might be. And if I do, is there
> a way for me to
> > link a pre-existing check transaction to a
> newly-created Gnucash bill,
> > or is there some other way to handle that scenario?
> 
> Personally I feel that it's worthwhile to do so back to
> the start of
> your accounting period, but it depends on how many invoices
> you have
> between then and now.  It MIGHT be better to ignore those
> invoices
> and just move forward from here to the end of the period.
> 
> Unfortunately invoice entry is a little cumbersome.
> 
> -derek
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