Credit notes
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Basic data
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Creating a credit note
Select the entry Create voucher in the context menu on the Overview tab in the Invoicing.
The automatically pre-assigned voucher type Invoice will appear in the mask Voucher header data. Select Credit note through the dropdown menu.
An additional field appears → Correction for invoice.
The field Correction for invoice is optional and only to be used for a correction of an invoice.
→ It is explained separately → Correction invoice and Invoice layout.
The Allocation automatically changes to Expenses.
These are settings in the basic data for the financial accounts department due to the fact that a credit note uses different impersonal accounts as an invoice.
The other data for the credit note are recorded in the voucher items as if it was a collective invoice.
Valid billing codes must be present for all credit note files.
The voucher type Credit note is displayed in the voucher overview:
It is subtracted as an expenditure from the result in the account sheet:
Allocation of credit notes for special account types
When using the account type G or when using alternative debtors and creditors in adr_t with account type = G or general settings of a mixed current accounts, the allocation REVENUE is used for receivables if this credit note corrects an invoice.
The allocation is read from the settings in the basic data COMPANY → FINANCIAL INTERFACE → Accounts/Allocation tab → field Allocation outgoing invoice.
ATTENTION: If an allocation change is activated, the allocation selected by the user is accepted.
→ Field Change in account assignment in Accounts/allocation tab in FINANCIAL INTERFACE.
The allocation is only read from the basic data COMPANY for mixed accounts if no allocation change is activated. (fibustamm_t.kontierung...)