[GNC] Help

[Derek Atkins]

David,

On Tue, June 21, 2022 7:20 pm, davidcousens49 at gmail.com wrote:
> Eric,
>
[snip]
> To record the bad debt you would create a transaction which credited
> Accounts
> Receivable and debited Expense:Bad Debts. This will cancel out the amount
> credited to Income in the original invoice. I had no difficulty creating
> such an
> entry in V4.10 with a test account setup for the business features. There
> was no
> limitation on the account selection when I created the transaction in the
> Accounts Receivable register.

Just creating the transaction directly is not sufficient -- you still have
to map it to the Customer to "pay" the invoice.

> The Help manual
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/busnss-ar-payment1.html has
> a
> description of how to do this using the process payment process which does
> have
> a restriction on processing the payment to an expense account. The key is
> to
> select an asset account (e.g. cheque account) when creating the
> transaction in
> Process payment and then after the transaction is created change the
> account
> from the asset account to the Expense:Bad Debt account. It is only the
> process
> payment procedure which has a restriction on the type of account you can
> select
> for a payment and there is no way that GnuCash could internally
> differentiate
> between a payment to an Bad Debts expense account and any other expense
> account
>  as there isn't a specific account type for bad debts.

Yes, which is the process I pointed out several hours ago.  :)

> David Cousens

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-derek

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