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gbailey75
Level 1

Recording invoice payment from previous year

Without going through all the issues, I am recreating the 2023 fiscal year in an older version of Quickbooks -- without the prior year's records. I am treating 2023 like a standalone year -- with only the year-end balance in the bank account from 2022 coming forward. We had two 2022 invoices that were paid in 2023. How do I record those transactions? 

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Rainflurry
Level 13

Recording invoice payment from previous year

@gbailey75 

 

If you're on cash basis, you have a couple options:  (a) recreate the invoice in 2023 and receive payment on it or, (b) create a deposit and assign the appropriate income accounts from the invoice to it.  

 

If you're on accrual basis, the income was already recorded in 2022 and, normally, you would post the payment received in 2023 to A/R.  However, since you're not carrying over the A/R balance from 2022,  I would create an equity account called '2022 A/R Offset' or something similar and post a deposit to that account.  I'm sure there are other ways to do it but that's just my $.02.   

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