Sorry for the dumb question here… not an accounting person so go easy on me.
If I create a purchase invoice, there’s a CREDIT TO field. I put in my Electricity Expense account there so it will credit this to that account.
Then, I convert this purchase invoice into a payment entry and it asks for debit and credit account. Am I going to DEBIT the electricity expense account and CREDIT my bank account that the money is coming out of to pay it? Does this all make sense and am I thinking this correctly?
share you screencast while asking questions. That makes visualizing what you do and is the something which needs to be changed.
On your accounting question:
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Purchase Entry:
Purchase Account Debit (i.e. your expense accounts tagged to your item purchase cost)
To Accounts Payable A/c (which is tagged to your supplier)
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Payment Entry:
Accounts Payable A/c (linked to Supplier) - this happens when you allocated the amount paid
To Cash/Bank Account, which ever you select
Sorry, not really a screencast to show you as I’m just trying to figure it out and don’t have it fully working. Thanks for replying.