[GNC] Importing Checking Transactions: Expense Acct Assignment Question.

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Wed Feb 5 09:18:29 EST 2020


Hi,

Fran_3 via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> writes:

> Will assigning the Expense Account during import conflict with later
> creating a bill and then assigning a checking transaction as payment
> for that bill? (Since the Expense Account is normally assigned during
> creation of the bill... so this will be kind of backwards... I think)
> I hope I made the issue and question clear. At least I gave it my best shot :-)

The short answer is "yes".  If you import the check into Bank and
always assign the "correct" Expense account, then you will bypass the
Bill completely.   For Vendors that have a Bill you *MUST* assign the
payment to AP, not the appropriate Expense.

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-derek

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