"In all the scenarios I have described, where the box was checked to "Bill" a client or customer for an expense, *never* did I have to choose where that particular part of the payment to me would be booked. QB *automatically* assigned it to whatever account the original reimburseable expense was hitting."
That means you Overlooked that you are supposed to control this.
You control it with Two Sided Items. Or, you control it by mapping income to expense, which means the Job Reports don't work well. Job Tracking and reporting rely on the use of Items.
It just means that someone didn't know how to Customize QB, once you start using it, for all of the things that Matter.
I have a Handout that explains what you didn't learn from others; I have attached it. I use it in my classes.
