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- Other Purchases
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- ÀáVendorÀá
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- You must select a vendor for this purchase. Vendors are those card file entries
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- you labeled 'Vendor.' See Selecting From a Search List in Chapter 1.
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- ÀáNote:Àá If this is a cash purchase and you do not track the purchases activity for
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- this vendor, create a new vendor card called something like 'Cash', or
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- 'MasterCard.' If this is a payable purchase, you’re better off adding this vendor
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- to your card file, so you can track the payable balance.
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- ÀáPurchase NumberÀá
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- The purchase number identifies this transaction within the Purchases &
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- Payables journal. M.Y.O.B. sorts journal transactions by number within date.
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- You may enter up to 8 characters, using any combination of numbers and letters.
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- M.Y.O.B. provides a default purchases number with the prefix PJ (for Purchases
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- & Payables journal) followed by a 6-digit number. M.Y.O.B. allows duplicate
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- journal entry numbers, however it is not recommended.
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- ÀáDateÀá
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- All transactions within the Purchases & Payables Journal are sorted by
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- transaction date. You may not enter a date prior to the conversion date or in a
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- prior fiscal year. If you enter a future date, M.Y.O.B. accepts it, but only after
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- warning you that the date is probably in error.
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- ÀáMemoÀá
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- Enter whatever you’d like. Memos can be up to 255 characters, but because of
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- report display limitations, it is most useful to limit your memos to 40 or 50
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- characters.
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- ÀáAccount NumberÀá
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- You must select an account. Since this is a purchase, it is usually an expense
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- account.
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- To select an account, see Selecting From a Search List in Chapter 1.
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- If you need to enter a new expense account, click the New Account button on the
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- search chart of accounts dialog and M.Y.O.B. zooms to Chart of Accounts. Enter the
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- account information and press Enter or click OK. The window disappears and
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- you’re back at the Account Number field. Type the new account number and press
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- Tab. The new account is selected, its name appears and you jump to the Amount
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- field.
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- ÀáAmountÀá
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- Enter a dollar amount. M.Y.O.B. allows you to type the dollar amount using
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- numbers, commas, periods and dollar signs. Improperly formed amounts are
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- disallowed and decimal amounts are rounded to the nearest penny.
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- Since M.Y.O.B. balances positive amounts with a credit to your linked payables
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- account, any positive number entered is treated as a debit. This is almost always
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- correct, since whenever you add to an expense account it is a debit. If you’re
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- entering a return or purchases adjustment, use a negative amount. Negative
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- amounts reduce (credit) the selected account. If there is a negative balance due,
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- the linked payables account is debited.
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- ÀáNote:Àá A negative balance due creates a debit purchase. Use Settle Debits to
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- deposit a refund or apply the money to another payable.
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- ÀáNote:Àá An account without a dollar amount is not recorded as part of the journal
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- entry.
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- ÀáJobÀá
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- If the selected account is an income, expense, cost of sales, other income or other
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- expense account, you can assign the amount to a job (see Jobs List in Chapter
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- 10). Type the job number and press Tab. If you are unsure of the job number,
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- press Command-L to see the job list. Select a job from the job list or click New
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- Job to create a new one.
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- ÀáNote:Àá If you need to assign an amount from a single account to more than one job,
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- enter the account more than one time. Say, for example, you have $100 debit to
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- widget expenses and you need to assign $30 to job 12 and $70 to job 43. Enter
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- two debits to widget expenses, one for $30 and the other for $70.
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- ÀáNote:Àá Upon entering the complete purchase, use the down arrow to jump to the
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- Paid Today field.
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- ÀáPaid TodayÀá
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- Upon entering the details of the purchase, use the down arrow to jump to the Paid
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- Today field.
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- If this is a full or partial cash purchase, enter the amount paid here. This
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- amount is drawn from your linked checking account and recorded in the Cash
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- Disbursements journal.
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- When you record the purchase, a dialog appears with the check number, payee
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- and memo. If the information is correct, click OK. If it is incorrect, click Cancel
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- and use Make a Payment to record the cash payment.
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- ÀáBalance DueÀá
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- A positive balance due increases (credits) your linked payables account. A
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- positive balance due also creates an open payable. When you pay all or part of
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- this balance, use Make a Payment to write the check and settle this payable.
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- A return or adjustment usually creates a negative balance due. A negative balance
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- due decreases (debits) your linked payables account. The purchase becomes a
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- debit purchase. Use Settle Debits to apply the debit to an open payable or to
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- deposit the vendor’s refund.
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- ÀáRecordÀá
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- Positive amounts in the detail of the purchase are recorded as debits. Negative
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- amounts are credits. If there’s a positive balance due, it’s added to the payable
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- balance for this vendor and a new open payable is created. When you pay your
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- bill, use Make a Payment to write the check, and settle this payable.
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- ÀáNote:Àá A negative balance due reduces your payable balance and creates a debit
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- purchase order. Use Settle Debits to apply the debit to an open payable or to
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- deposit the vendor’s refund.
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- If you entered an amount in Paid Today, a check is drawn from your linked
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- checking account and recorded in the Cash Disbursements journal. When you
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- record the purchase, a dialog appears with the check number, payee and memo. If
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- the information is correct, click OK. If it is incorrect, click Cancel and use Make
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- a Payment to record the cash payment.
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