Op woensdag 1 juli 2020 18:02:35 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Apologies, > > My understanding of the Business Features was that there is one Accounts > Receivable account of *type* ‘Accounts Receivable’ and there can be only > one account of that type, and that the Business Features are not cognizant > of ‘other Accounts Receivable’ accounts of type ‘asset’, and that one > shouldn’t make manual entries in the main AR account. > > I considered currencies and understood them to be sub-accounts of AR created > by GnuCash. > > Where is my understanding incorrect? > There is no restriction on the number of AR accounts you can create. GnuCash doesn't enforce a single one, nor does it assume where in the account hierarchy it should be. And most reports handle this properly as far as I know.
In practice the most common use case for multiple AR accounts is as Frank pointed out: you can have one per currency you do business in. In that case you post invoices for customers in currency A to an AR account denominated in currency A, and invoices for customers in currency B to an AR account denominated in currency B. You are correct one should try to avoid making manual changes to accounts of type A/R. And one can also create asset type accounts and treat them as A/R accounts manually and those are effectively completely ignored by the business features. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ 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.
