Enter a payment on a contra account and reverse invoices
If you journalise a non-payment in the bank journal, you must also make an entry in the contra account. You then reverse the payments.
You first reverse the second journal entry in the bank journal, of course only for the total amount of the payments not made:
Account |
Debit |
Credit |
Bank |
amount paid |
|
To Payments suspense account |
|
amount paid |
Then you reverse the unpaid invoices. As a result the following journal entry is made per invoice:
Account |
Debit |
Credit |
Payments suspense account |
amount paid |
|
To Creditor |
|
amount paid |
To enter a payment on a contra account and reverse invoices:
- Go to: Financial / Enter / Journal.
- Check Financial year and Period. These are the financial year and the period to which you post the entry.
- Select the journal.
- Click on: Finish.
- Enter the date from the statement line as Date entry.
- Select the Payments in transit suspense account.
- Enter the payment amount (total amount of the unpaid invoices) in the Receipts column.
- Click on: Finish.
- Follow the procedure for reversing the invoices concerned.