[GNC] Attaching receipts to expenses voucher

[Chris Jewell]

Thanks Michael, that's very helpful for my understanding!

Chris

On Sat, 21 Oct 2023, 23:17 Michael or Penny Novack, <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> > Yeah, I tried that, but in the Employee -> New expenses voucher -> Edit
> > Expense Voucher list, right-clicking on the Description block doesn't
> > bring up any context menu (there isn't a memo block on this page).  Of
> > course, trying to do this in the target expense account doesn't work as
> > the transaction is automatically marked read-only.
> >
> > Maybe this is a bug?
> >
> > Chris
>
> Well -- gnucash is just the "general ledger" part of a business system
> (not an entire business system). So I would not consider failure to
> associate documents to transactions WITHIN gnucash to be a bug.
>
> Maybe turn this around? It is the association that you really need,
> whether within or outside of gnucash. One of the problems here is that
> gnucash is "virtual journal" and it with the journal entry (the entire
> transaction) I would expect to associate documentation << not with parts
> of the transaction -- I do understand that you can think of receipts
> belonging to separate parts but "receipts" just a special case of
> documentation.
>
> Let's say in the description field you put a "number" (say "receipt file
> #1234). And you have a file of receipts which to which your assign
> numbers. In other words, you have a reference "here is where the
> receipts related to this general ledger may be found.In reverse, the
> receipt record should include a reference to the transaction (date, etc.)
>
> If this seems odd to you (not having them IN the general ledger) think
> of pen and oink on paper days. You would expect to be pasting receipts
> into the ledger book?
>
> This is an AUDITING matter (given a transaction, can you produce the
> receipts associated with a transaction)
>
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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