Book Keeping Challenges / Issues - Chart of Accounts is not sufficient - One payment can go towards more than one charge - One charge can be paid for by more than one payment - Need to know: how much money does customer owe? - Need to know: how much money has customer been charged for "Rent"? - Need to know: how much money has customer paid towards "Rent" (nothing else)? - Reverse a charge To make charge reversal work, I'm presently issuing a credit note (transaction) that has 3 ledger entries: Debit charged account - Credit A/R Debit A/R - Credit "Credit" account Debit "Credit" account - Credit A/R And 3 statement entries: Reversal on charged account Negative Disbursement on "Credit" account Positive Disbursement on "Credit" account Obviously, the two "Credit" account ledger entries cancel each other out. However, the monies need to be reversed in the A/R account, and a previous transaction will have already performed an A/R credit and so the two A/R credits will create an imbalance in A/R unless we move those funds to our "Credit" account. The "Credit" account statement entries are needed to undo any previous disbursement to the charge being reversed, and then to re-disburse those funds to a different charge (or possibly just a Surplus entry if no other charges exist.) Question - What should be recorded with this charge reversal? Charge of $5 for "Parking" Charge of $6 for "Rent" Payment of $6 Reverse the $5 "Parking" charge - What should be recorded with this charge reversal? Charge of $5 for "Parking" Charge of $6 for "Rent" Charge of $7 for "Pets" Payment of $13 Reverse the $5 "Parking" charge - What should be recorded with this charge reversal? Charge of $5 for "Parking" Charge of $6 for "Rent" Charge of $7 for "Pets" Payment of $18 Reverse the $5 "Parking" charge