Thanks again Geert, Indeed, the type alone was the issue. I placed the desired accounts back under their A/R & A/P parents and everything still works the way I want.
As far as I can tell, the customer and vendor reports still work properly because I still use invoices and bills at some point in the process. The special accounts are just for accruals. If I notice any other report issues I’ll be sure to post an addendum. Regards, Adrien > On Dec 19, 2017, at 2:38 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > 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.
