(Business Features) How to find unmatched transactions in A/P?

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sat May 16 04:16:04 EDT 2015


On Friday 15 May 2015 19:54:59 Buddha Buck wrote:
> Last night I helped the treasurer of a club I'm in find out where a
> $410 discrepancy in our Accounts Payable was coming from. There were
> no unpaid bills, yet A/P was showing a balance of $410. It turned out
> that some transactions had been accidentally posted to A/P, not the
> proper account.
> 
> To find these transactions, we had to go through each credit in the
> A/P and match it with a corresponding debit, until all we had left
> were transactions that didn't correspond to a paid bill. This
> involved generating a transaction report and cut/pasting it into
> LibreOffice so we could more easily mark and manipulate the entries.
> 
> Is there a better way within GnuCash to have done this? Since each
> entry in A/P is presumably tagged with the bill it's associated with,
> it seems like the data is there.

Hi Buddha,

The wiki page I recently wrote about common business issues has one 
answer:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Correcting_Business_Transaction_Mistakes#How_can_I_see_which_transactions.2Fsplits_are_ignored_by_the_business_features_.3F

Is this helpful ?

Regards,

Geert


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