Quick Free Agent question

scribblesvurt

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Jan 14, 2010
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Hello,

I'm new to bookkeeping and to FreeAgent so sorry for the low level question.

If I do a job for a customer and create them an invoice for say £30. They then pay me £30 cash. The £30 is there for in the system as I created the invoice. I then spend the £30 out of my pocket on printer paper. I then create a new out of pocket expense for £30 for computer paper and attach the scanned receipt. I then need to create a manual payment for £30 to show that it has gone out to pay the out of pocket expense.

Is this the correct way of doing thing or am I getting it all mixed up! :))

Thanks for any help with this matter.

Sam
 

Philip Hoyle

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  • Apr 3, 2007
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    Set up a bank account called "cash". Post the invoice payment as money paid by cash, so the "cash" balance increases, then post the expense as a payment out paid by cash, so the "cash" balance decreases. The balance in the "cash" account is the difference between monies received and monies paid.
     
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