[GNC] Trail balance Imbalance / multi-currency transaction

[G R Hewitt]

I don't know if GC supports this, but when I was using Sage Line 50 you
could alter the VAT amount to match the invoice
before committing the transaction, and I often had to do this.

G

On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 at 00:48, AP <gnucash at inml.grue.cc> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 04:17:50AM +0000, David Kirkby wrote:
> > I know £7 is not a lot, but it is annoying me. I would like to try to
> solve
> > the problem.
>
> I'm new to the accounting game but since starting with gnucash have learnt
> to
> love double-entry bookkeeping. It Just Makes Sense[tm].
>
> This led me to almost throwing gnucash out the window when I got a 1c
> rounding
> error on the GST for a transaction. The way the vendor calculated GST and
> the
> way gnucash calculated GST were not... balanced. The end result of this
> was that
> I was always going to have this 1c difference on the books and it was
> bound to
> grow. The books would never be balanced as a result.
>
> Luckily I thought of making an extra entry in the sales tax tables for 1c
> and
> added a tweak line to the bill entry that made it match and everything was
> "good
> enough" in the world.
>
> Hopefully that was the correct solution to this.
>
> AP
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