Off the top of my head, I don't recall exactly. I _think_, aside from bad debt, I handled vendor discounts and credit notes in this way, before GC became more elegant in that way.
Hth, Maf. On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:21:31 BST Eric Hammond wrote: > Thank you David, Derek and Maf, > > That works good enough, since I don't expect to need it much. > Maf, I am interested in what other situations this is needed. > > There were no intended graphics (or?) attached. It may be my Outlook adding > a background > > Thanks again, > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+eric=jehammond....@gnucash.org> On > Behalf Of gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 > 5:13 PM > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 231, Issue 55 > > Send gnucash-user mailing list submissions to > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > gnucash-user-ow...@gnucash.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than > "Re: Contents of gnucash-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Stock and Stock Prices (Gyle McCollam) > 2. Thank you for your courtesy (Jim DeLaHunt) > 3. Help (Eric Hammond) > 4. Re: Thank you for your courtesy (Chris Graves) > 5. Re: Help (Derek Atkins) > 6. Re: Help (Maf. King) > 7. Re: Help (davidcousen...@gmail.com) > 8. Re: Help (Derek Atkins) > 9. Re: Help (davidcousen...@gmail.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:08:23 +0000 > From: Gyle McCollam <gmccol...@live.com> > To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: [GNC] Stock and Stock Prices > Message-ID: > <blapr06mb68027de4d3c125a6fce41ceeca...@blapr06mb6802.namprd06.prod.outlook > .com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > My statements for stocks show shares and prices per share to 5 decimal > places. In GnuCash "Tools/Price Database" it shows the per share price to > 5 decimal places as well. However, in the register it shows the shares and > balance to 5 decimal places as well, but it only shows the price to 4 > decimal places. I can't find how to change this anywhere. I would like it > to show the price in the register to the same 5 decimal places it has it > recorded to in the price database. Any help would be appreciated. > > > Thank You, > > Gyle McCollam > > Gyle McCollam > > gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:35:30 -0700 > From: Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: [GNC] Thank you for your courtesy > Message-ID: <03a1e981-8eb3-caa4-60f0-a5c565564...@jdlh.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Liz, David T, Gyle, and D: > (but really everyone contributes) > > Thank you for your courtesy.? Liz, thank you for your work as list > moderator, and specifically for stepping in when some recent language was > not acceptable here. The others of you, thank you for apologising, rather > than lashing out. The result is a more pleasant and more productive email > list and community. > > I am subscribed to users' mailing lists for other projects, where this sort > of courtesy is often lacking. Nasty comments are more common. Some > participants are repeatedly nasty. When someone points out that they are > violating the community's code of conduct, they do not apologise, and they > lash out with more nastiness. It is awful. > > And that is one of the reasons why I spend more effort participating here > rather than there. Thank you. > > Best regards, > ??? ?Jim DeLaHunt > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:43:14 +0000 > From: Eric Hammond <e...@jehammond.net> > To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: [GNC] Help > Message-ID: > <byapr19mb25175df3d5f2b788e2007ff2d5...@byapr19mb2517.namprd19.prod.outlook > .com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > I was not paid by a client, and have 'written it off', but how do I book it > in GnuCash? Standard business practice is to post it in to an expense > account such as 'Bad Debt' or 'Uncollectable'. I have created the account > 'Expenses:Bad Debt' but GnuCash does not allow me to select it, apparently > only accepting an asset account. > > Thank you for the help, > > Eric > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image001.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 4863 bytes > Desc: image001.jpg > URL: > <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20220621/a6dc5 > ebf/attachment-0001.jpg> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:15:09 -0700 > From: Chris Graves <mohaveba...@gmail.com> > To: Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Thank you for your courtesy > Message-ID: > <cam-ahxkksytugp4ponpwtjwtlu+ysr618po1-d++z4t4wcv...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > +1 > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 12:36 PM Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote: > > Liz, David T, Gyle, and D: > > (but really everyone contributes) > > > > Thank you for your courtesy. Liz, thank you for your work as list > > moderator, and specifically for stepping in when some recent language > > was not acceptable here. The others of you, thank you for apologising, > > rather than lashing out. The result is a more pleasant and more > > productive email list and community. > > > > I am subscribed to users' mailing lists for other projects, where this > > sort of courtesy is often lacking. Nasty comments are more common. > > Some participants are repeatedly nasty. When someone points out that > > they are violating the community's code of conduct, they do not > > apologise, and they lash out with more nastiness. It is awful. > > > > And that is one of the reasons why I spend more effort participating > > here rather than there. Thank you. > > > > Best regards, > > > > ?Jim DeLaHunt > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:35:29 -0400 > From: "Derek Atkins" <de...@ihtfp.com> > To: "Eric Hammond" <e...@jehammond.net> > Cc: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Help > Message-ID: > <d1cebb54f6e0466304bd5201636dbd2e.squir...@mail2.ihtfp.org> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > > Hi, > > On Tue, June 21, 2022 3:43 pm, Eric Hammond wrote: > > I was not paid by a client, and have 'written it off', but how do I > > book it in GnuCash? > > Standard business practice is to post it in to an expense account such > > as 'Bad Debt' or 'Uncollectable'. > > I have created the account 'Expenses:Bad Debt' but GnuCash does not > > allow me to select it, apparently only accepting an asset account. > > The way I have done it myself (as the original author of the biz features) > was to process the payment as if I was paid, but then change the > transaction from Asset:Bank to Expense:WriteOff. So long as you don't > change the *amount* of the payment (or other numerical values) then this > won't break or affect anything in the internal references. > > Hope this helps! > > > Thank you for the help, > > > > Eric > > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > PS: I'm sorry your client didn't pay you. > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, June 21, 2022 3:43 pm, Eric Hammond wrote: > > > I was not paid by a client, and have 'written it off', but how do I book > > > it in GnuCash? > > > Standard business practice is to post it in to an expense account such > > > as > > > 'Bad Debt' or 'Uncollectable'. > > > I have created the account 'Expenses:Bad Debt' but GnuCash does not > > > allow > > > me to select it, apparently only accepting an asset account. > > > > The way I have done it myself (as the original author of the biz features) > > was to process the payment as if I was paid, but then change the > > transaction from Asset:Bank to Expense:WriteOff. So long as you don't > > change the *amount* of the payment (or other numerical values) then this > > won't break or affect anything in the internal references. > > > > Hope this helps! > > > > > Thank you for the help, > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -derek > > > > PS: I'm sorry your client didn't pay you. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:20:18 +1000 > From: davidcousen...@gmail.com > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Help > Message-ID: <eec7c63b0ea378bb5d614059ab50af67c30b1944.ca...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Eric, > > The image you attached did not appear to contain anything. Presumably you > raised an invoice when you billed the client which would have created an > entry debiting Accounts Receivable and crediting the appropriate income > account. > > To record the bad debt you would create a transaction which credited > Accounts Receivable and debited Expense:Bad Debts. This will cancel out the > amount credited to Income in the original invoice. I had no difficulty > creating such an entry in V4.10 with a test account setup for the business > features. There was no limitation on the account selection when I created > the transaction in the Accounts Receivable register. > > 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. > > David Cousens > > On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 19:43 +0000, Eric Hammond wrote: > > I was not paid by a client, and have 'written it off', but how do I book > > it in GnuCash? > > Standard business practice is to post it in to an expense account such as > > 'Bad Debt' or 'Uncollectable'. > > I have created the account 'Expenses:Bad Debt' but GnuCash does not allow > > me to select it, apparently only accepting an asset account. > > > > Thank you for the help, > > > > Eric > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:41:37 -0400 > From: "Derek Atkins" <de...@ihtfp.com> > To: davidcousen...@gmail.com > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Help > Message-ID: > <74e7596fbd3c20cabf584b0b9bdc494f.squir...@mail2.ihtfp.org> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > > David, > > On Tue, June 21, 2022 7:20 pm, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > > Eric, > > [snip] > > > To record the bad debt you would create a transaction which credited > > Accounts > > Receivable and debited Expense:Bad Debts. This will cancel out the amount > > credited to Income in the original invoice. I had no difficulty creating > > such an > > entry in V4.10 with a test account setup for the business features. There > > was no > > limitation on the account selection when I created the transaction in the > > Accounts Receivable register. > > 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. > > Yes, which is the process I pointed out several hours ago. :) > > > David Cousens > > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > > David, > > > > On Tue, June 21, 2022 7:20 pm, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Eric, > > > > [snip] > > > > > To record the bad debt you would create a transaction which credited > > > Accounts > > > Receivable and debited Expense:Bad Debts. This will cancel out the > > > amount > > > credited to Income in the original invoice. I had no difficulty creating > > > such an > > > entry in V4.10 with a test account setup for the business features. > > > There > > > was no > > > limitation on the account selection when I created the transaction in > > > the > > > Accounts Receivable register. > > > > 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. > > > > Yes, which is the process I pointed out several hours ago. :) > > > > > David Cousens > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -derek > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > ------------------------------ > > End of gnucash-user Digest, Vol 231, Issue 55 > ********************************************* > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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