A Bill and an Invoice are exactly the same with one small detail: the direction. A Gnucash Invoice is something _you send to a customer_ because they owe you money. A Gnucash Bill is an invoice _you receive from a vendor_ because you owe them money. In all other respects they are the same thing.
-derek Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > as a dumb translator I have to ask: What is the difference between a > 'bill' and an 'invoice'? Trivially I would come up with identical > translations for both, but I guess that this is not intended. So > please explain to me the difference between both... > > In the glossary, I've defined both as: > > bill - "a written statement of money owed for goods or services supplied" > > invoice - "A list of goods sold or services provided together with the > prices charged; a bill" > > and again, with these definitions I would definitely translate both > into German as "Rechnung" i.e. with the same word. > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
