Record an expense
The expense is booked at once: the expense goes up and the cash or bank goes down, so the profit and loss and the cash flow are right the same day. Each one gets a number, like EX-000001.
- Go to Finance → Expenses and press Record an expense.
- Choose What for (the kind of expense) and type the Amount.
- Choose Paid from: the cash drawer or the bank account the money came out of.
- Add who you paid and a note if you like, and press Save.
A month at a glance
Choose a month to see what was paid out in it, newest first, with the month's total. Costs added on a sales order are listed here too, with the order's number.
A mistake
Press Void on the expense and say why. It comes out of the accounts and stays listed as void with your reason, so nothing is lost.
See also
More in this area
- Finance: how your books fill themselves
- What posts to the books, and when
- Unposted events: fix, retry or backfill
- Chart of accounts and opening balances
- The journal: manual entries and reversals
- Periods and month-end close
- Financial reports: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, trial balance, ledger and VAT
- Export for your accountant
- Supplier invoices and payments
- Customer balances and receipts
- Bank reconciliation