Roger, I use an account called Liabilities:Customer Deposits.
When I receive the funds I debit cash/checking and credit the Customer Deposit liability account. When I apply their deposit to an invoice, I ‘pay’ the invoice with that liability account. You probably will want to make sub-accounts for each customer under that Customer Deposits account. Unfortunately, this does not combine with a customer report as those funds never enter the A/R account. I’m not sure if there is a way around that as technically, these ARE liabilities, not assets. I suppose it would be nice if the business features included a special Customer Deposit account and the customer report considered it when executing. You might want to file an enhancement request. Regards, Adrien > On Nov 2, 2017, at 10:54 AM, rmom...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is there a way to show paid ahead customer balances on the balance sheet? > They show by customers overview as negative balances per customer but not on > the balance sheet that I can find. > > > > I would like to see the total balances on the balance sheet as a liability > against a cash reserve for a specific item that some families pay ahead for > the entire year. Otherwise it is a quarterly charge. The product is student > materials, the programmed texts they use to study. The idea is to have > visibility of these paid ahead balances to keep them in a physically > separate fund. > > > > Thanks, > > Roger > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
