1 Topic by ddahlstrom

(1 replies, posted in Reporting)

I'm on rev. 2.3.15 of FA.  In the Balance report when a line goes to all zero balances the line will normally disappear, but I now have two lines in the report that will not go away even though the balance in all three columns (Open Balance, Period, and Close Balance) is zero.  Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks!

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2 Topic by ddahlstrom

(3 replies, posted in Reporting)

I'm on rev. 2.3.15 of FA.  The index on my supplier payments has just gone to 4 digits and now there is no space between the #  column and the Reference column.  There is still plenty of space between the Reference and Date columns so I'm wondering if there is a way I could bump the Reference column over by a space or two to fix this.

Thanks!

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3 Reply by ddahlstrom

(4 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)

Ok.  I looked at the Purchase Pricing option and I guess I now at least understand what is happening, but it doesn't resolve the issue for me.  The items we are talking about here are service items and have no intrinsic price.  The descriptions and price are determined on the fly at time of entry.  For now I can continue to print from the GL transaction details view though which shows my entered descriptions.

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4 Topic by ddahlstrom

(4 replies, posted in Report Bugs here)

When I enter supplier invoices, after selecting and adding an item, I will frequently edit the item name.  In some cases our items are general item categories, so it will often be the case where I will enter the same item multiple times, and then edit the description to distinguish them.

This works fine for data entry; however, the Print Purchase Orders report does not show the edited descriptions properly.  If I enter three of the same item, but edit each of the descriptions to make them unique, on the report I will see one of those edited descriptions repeated three times.  Interestingly, If I go into Void a Transaction and look at the Sales Invoice, I see each of the edited descriptions correctly (and is where I am currently printing from to get the correct descriptions).

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5 Reply by ddahlstrom

(6 replies, posted in Setup)

We are using FA for a church.  Apmuthu is correct.  Setup your donations as service type items.  We use dimension 1 to designate departments/projects and dimension 2 to designate funds.  We used the "US COA for a non-profit company" as the basis for our chart of accounts and edit as needed. 

Three important things we have learned so far.
1.  FA works surprisingly well.  On multiple occassions I have discovered things I thought the software couldn't do are actually very doable once I understood how the system worked.
2.  You are largely on your own when it comes to setting up your system.  The devs here will quickly come to your aid when reporting bugs or have general questions, but you need to do your own accounting homework.
3.  You would do well to learn how to write your own reports.  I have written three so far.  The built-in reports are generally quite good, but it is very likely that you'll need to supplement them.  If you know a programming language it's not too hard.

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