[GNC] Help

[Michael or Penny Novack]

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> 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.

And there shouldn't be (some special provision JUST for "bad debt" 
because there are other ways the invoice could be "paid" in exchange for 
an expense being covered. In other words, a transaction originally 
intended to be "for money" ends up as "barter"

Michael