Adrien, To clarify your experience: the limiting factor is indeed the account type. A/R and A/P type accounts can only be used to post invoices/bills/vouchers to and to assign payments to customers/vendors/employees. This is a limitation embedded deeply into the design and can't be easily changed unfortunately.
As you found you can create an account of type Asset instead of A/R to do what you want. What is not clear in your report is that you can add this Asset account under your A/R account as a subaccount so at least your chart of accounts continues to make sense. Similarly for A/P you can create subaccounts of type Liability. You can *name* them A/P-something if you prefer, but the account *type* must not be A/P. To be complete, I haven't verified if all reports will be able to handle this unusual arrangement of accounts though. Regards, Geert Op dinsdag 19 december 2017 06:11:10 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: > So, trying to work around the multi-period posting date issue in another > thread, I opted to bring in a vestige of paper accounting and utilize an > Accrued Revenue account. (otherwise known as ‘unbilled revenue’ or > ‘unbilled work’) > > The guidance I found online suggested this should be a Current Asset, > generally of type A/R. > > I tried to create an A/R sub-account. This worked until I tried to adjust an > invoice so it’s line items hit this Accrued Revenue account instead of an > Income account. The invoice feature won’t let me see it in the list to > select it. > > So, I moved the account out of the parent A/R and placed it under Current > Assets. Still no dice. > > Apparently, the account ‘type’ was ‘A/Receivable’ and the business features > look at this when deciding what to allow you to use in an invoice and bill. > This type is apparently not allowed, even though it isn’t the main A/R > account created by the Business Features and to which I do not manually > post. > > Note, I can *post* the invoice to the standard A/R account (or likely any > other A/R type I create) but I can’t use other A/R types for the line > items. This means contra-accounts are not allowed. > > The solution was to delete the Accrued Revenue account I just created, and > re-create it with the parent Current Assets and give it type Asset. Now > everything works, but instead of being able to roll this under A/R where it > belongs, I have a flatter account tree. Now I recall a similar issue trying > to create A/P sub-accounts some months ago. There’s no point. The business > features won’t let you use them. (except to post to, you can’t use it for > bill line-items) > > I suppose this behavior is intended and I understand the urge to prevent > people from using accounts that make a mess of things, but it requires yet > another work around. > > Just passing this on in case anyone else runs into this. > > Regards, > Adrien > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.