[GNC] Data Entry Overload - Create Bill + Post Bill + Pay Bill vs just Pay Bill?

[Adrien Monteleone]

The purpose of the Business Features is for accruals in order to adhere 
to the "Matching Principle" of accounting.

If you go to the local convenience store every afternoon and buy a candy 
bar, you'd just record that as a regular transaction. (and benefit from 
using Duplicate Transaction or otherwise taking advantage of AutoFill) 
You might even use a Scheduled Transaction for something you are pretty 
sure you are going to regularly need to enter.

It would be a rare and odd case indeed to be billed 'on account' by a 
vendor on a very short time frame (less than one month or weekly) for 
each, or nearly each, individual line item.

Regards,
Adrien

On 10/13/20 6:24 AM, elvis wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> I encountered this exact same problem.
> 
> 
> The way bills are entered just does not scale for someone doing more 
> than home entry, or doing it because they love it. 50 mouse clicks to 
> record buying a Mars bar just isn't viable if you have more than a Mars 
> bar a week.
> 
> 
> I have a small program that takes downloaded transactions from the bank, 
> munges the descriptions so the qif importer recognises the accounts and 
> also adds gst. Saves hours and hours a month.