How to charge expenses to a customer

[John Layman]

Thanks for spelling out the process.  Our practice has been to provide an
expense report built from an Excel template and bill expenses as a single
line on the invoice.  I'm not sure how well the voucher approach would work
for us, given that the expense reports sometimes come in after related
credit card charges have already been recorded.  I'll have to think through
how we might use this feature.  It would be good to actually make use of the
charge-back feature of GnuCash.

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Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 3:30 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: How to charge expenses to a customer

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:53:00PM -0400, John Layman wrote:

> I can guess how the voucher entry works and how expense accounts are
entered, but how is an income account specified for the receivable?  The
business features just aren't documented.

Ah.  Well, when you specify a customer for this, the entry appears on the
next invoice for the customer (though you can remove them from the invoice).
Each line needs an income account for it, which you do line by line (I think
there's a default, but I forget).  It's a little clunky, but it works.

I agree that the documentation on the business features is pretty bad.
I keep thinking I should write some, but since my accountant keeps assuring
me that I have no clue what I'm doing, I don't think I want to write the
docs yet :)

A


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