Recording all purchases under a vendor???

[Maf. King]

On Thu 26 March 15 06:01:43 nssimpson wrote:
> I've just spoken to my accountant and he tells me that raising an invoice is
> incorrect. I just need to log it as a credit against the initial legal fees
> expense.
> 
> Unfortunately he has no experience of gnucash so can someone advise me how
> to log it?
> 
>

Hi Nick,

I did this recently, which is similar to your situation, but I was chasing a 
customer...

Settlement from court was unpaid invoice + fees - say £155 for an original 
£100 + VAT invoice.

Process payment against invoice for full invoice amount (VAT split already 
handled at invoice creation time) so £120 Bank:Current <-----> Assets:A/R

Then edit the bank side of the txn to add a split line for £35 to 
Expenses:LegalFees, reducing the balance on that account to 0, the bank then 
shows £155 deposited.  Copious use of notes & memo fields will help me 
remember what was going on (if I need to) in a couple of years time... 

HTH,
Maf.