A/R question
Cam Ellison
cam at ellisonet.ca
Wed Sep 2 12:01:26 EDT 2009
Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yeah, the system just isn't designed to handle the A/R account going away.
>
>
Now is not a good time to find that out. ;-)
>> I think this is a bug: you should be able to shift the invoice and
>> related transactions to the parent account, and either have the report
>> recognize this, or have the relevant owner guids changed to align with
>> the parent.
>>
>
> Yeah, I can see it called a bug. I can also see it called a design
> decision ;)
>
>
Indeed. In either case, I get to live with it. :p
>> In the meantime, it may make more sense to simply change the ownership
>> of the invoice. Do I assume correctly that the entire guid string
>> uniquely identifies the account?
>>
>
> Not sure what you mean by "the ownership of the invoice". Yes, the
> accounts are all referenced by GUID, but I definitely do not recommend
> that you go in and manipulate them by hand.
>
I understand the perils. I see that the owner guid refers to the Job,
not the Customer. Here there be monsters.
> At this point I'd recommend you revert back to an older file from before
> you deleted the extra AR accounts and once they are zeroized just hide
> them and move forward using other accounts. You could change the
> account type to 'Asset' so they stop showing up on reports or in the
> Post dialog.
>
It's actually a bit late to do the reversion, given that the oldest
version of the file post-dates the change. However, year-end is coming
up shortly. I should be able to zero out the totals - not sure what
I'll use for the offsetting account that won't freak out my accountant.
Thanks - the discussion has been useful.
Cam
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