[GNC] Best way to close unpaid invoices?

[Daffy Duck]

It is a discount, but the issue is:

1. It's multiple invoices to the same client
2. I want to create a new, final invoice that summarizes the expenses
that will be reimbursed and the actual services being paid for.  Two
different amounts on a single invoice, with a single total(but
separating expenses and sales).

Just doing a discount wouldn't do this, and would be harder.  There
were like 10 invoices that client had.  

So, I have paid those ten invoices from "renegotiated accounts" and
created a new invoice with expenses+sales agreed on.  

The only issue is, there is not a "bad debts" third account in this
situation.  Not sure how to implement something like that?  I had
"losses from renegotiated accounts" but that didn't seem to work.

On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 13:51 -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> On 3/9/21 12:21 PM, Daffy Duck wrote:
> > Ok, I think I have it working now.
> > 
> > So, the better way to look at the discounted situation in my case
> > was
> > "renegotiated accounts" because I want to pay expenses prior to
> > income.
> 
> Not sure I'm following here. Let's take this one step at a time.
> 
> First, I thought you had two separate cases: 1) a bad debt, 2) a 
> discount you wanted to offer after issuing an invoice. Is this not 
> correct? (the AFDA account is for case #1, the Credit Note is for
> case #2)
> 
> Second, What do your own expenses, and when you pay them, have to do 
> with giving a discount to a customer after you've invoiced them?
> 
> > So, I created a new asset account called "renegotiated accounts"
> > and
> > paid the outstanding invoices for this individual from that.
> > 
> > I then created a new invoice for the new amount, separating
> > reimbursed
> > expenses from income.  On the new invoice, the transfer account is
> > "renegotiated accounts."
> 
> This is starting to sound more complicated than the initial post.
> That's 
> fine, but please be clear about what you are trying to accomplish.
> 
> What do reimbursed expenses have to do with the discount situation?
> 
> -----
> 
> My personal rule of thumb is to *always* try to create transactions
> that 
> describe the real-world events, in the same order they occurred. That
> keeps me out of trouble trying to finagle something weird just to
> make 
> the math work. The math will work if I enter what really happened.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
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