Connecting the Dots

I have some questions about the income statement report.

First of all, how do the cash flow transactions (i.e. deposit or withdrawal to a cash / bank account) get connected back to their corresponding journal entries? For example, when a bill is received, it may get entered into the accounts payable account. Later on, a check gets issued, and accounts payable is credited.

The report query will find outgoing transactions, but in this example there is not corresponding expense account. The credit to the accounts payable must somehow be linked with the "journal of origin" to find out which expense it should be matched with.

While this seems a bit obscure, its actually a very important factor to retain in PBooks. At the moment, I'm thinking that there should be a method for linking several journal entries together. Because this is a fairly simple relationship, it might make sense to have a simple, two-column table that can string journal entries together.

By on February 12, 2008 11:58 AM

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