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Re: Customer's invoices paid by another customer?



Followup:

What do I do if the final payment is less than the original invoice?

I guess this is a separate question, along the lines of settling outstanding accounts for less than what is owed.

Luke


On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Luke wrote:

Accounting question.

I have a customer with several years of outstanding invoices.  They are
about to be paid, but another customer is going to do the paying.

I am looking for the best way to record and track this.

The process discovered earlier this year for handling employee expensed
vendor purchases in LedgerSMB, should work in reverse for this I think.

That process was:

0.  Create two vendors: real and employee.
1.  Bill real vendor.
2.  Pay from a liability bank account.
3.  Pay the employee from the real bank (asset) account, balancing against
an AP clearing account (liability), via cash -> payments [all].
4.  Transfer from the AP clearing account (liability) to that liability
bank account to balance the books.

I am thinking that the mirror image of this process would be:

0.  Create two customers: original and payer.
1.  Bill the original customer.
2.  Receive payment to a fake asset bank account.
3.  Receive a payment from the paying customer to the actual asset
account, balancing against an AR clearing account (asset), via cash ->
receipt [all].
4.  Transfer from the fake asset bank account, to the AR clearing asset
account, to balance the books.

Do I have this right?

The order of steps 3 and 4 on both of these probably don't matter much.

Luke


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