Accounting for till paid out (PO) when reconciling till
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Re: Accounting for till paid out (PO) when reconciling till
You could create a customer called Petty Cash. Every time you pull money out of the till, do a refund for Mr Petty Cash. But that will screw your debtors figures.
Note that what you cannot do (because the deport process is a 'deposit all' one) is create a Petty Cash bank deposit account and put say $300 into it and the rest into the real back account.
The cleanest way would be to do what your auditor would like - deposit all the takings in the bank, and while you are at the bank doing the deposit, withdraw the required petty cash amount.
Regards, Tim G
Re: Accounting for till paid out (PO) when reconciling till
Thanks Tim,
The package we are moving from is a full accounting package, so our first thought was to set up a Petty Cash bank account. Since you have advised against this, we will go back to the system we used before we got that package - a petty cash tin.
Mary.
Simon Slater
Registered Linux User #463789 @ http://linuxcounter.net
Re: Accounting for till paid out (PO) when reconciling till
Mary - you might have a look at http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.7/concepts/accounting - it suggests that "...you will almost certainly need to run a separate accounting system."
For a new user, the Concepts and Intro sections of the Context Sensitive Help system ( see http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.7/topics ) are worth reading through.
Regards, Tim G