[GNC] Help

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Tue, June 21, 2022 3:43 pm, Eric Hammond wrote:
>
> I was not paid by a client, and have 'written it off', but how do I book
> it in GnuCash?
> Standard business practice is to post it in to an expense account such as
> 'Bad Debt' or 'Uncollectable'.
> I have created the account 'Expenses:Bad Debt' but GnuCash does not allow
> me to select it, apparently only accepting an asset account.

The way I have done it myself (as the original author of the biz features)
was to process the payment as if I was paid, but then change the
transaction from Asset:Bank to Expense:WriteOff.  So long as you don't
change the *amount* of the payment (or other numerical values) then this
won't break or affect anything in the internal references.

Hope this helps!

> Thank you for the help,
>
> Eric

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-derek

PS: I'm sorry your client didn't pay you.

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