Bad Debts

When a business receives an NSF cheque I normally enter it as ($100.00 cheque)  CR bank acct $100.00 DR GST adj for $5.00 and bad debts for $95.00. If the client makes the cheque good later on I enter it as a normal cheque. Is this the right way to handle NSF cheques. Thanks

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    Hi Silverado,

    Another method is to create an invoice and select your bank account under the Acct column.  In this invoice, you can add bank charges if you get penalized by your bank due to NSF charges.  

    This entry will credit the bank account and debit the accounts receivable.

    Hope this helps.  

  • 0 in reply to Keith L

    and the tax code would be 'no tax' - it was credited on the original invoice

  • 0 in reply to Roger L

    Thanks for the help everyone, my client tells me that when she gets an NSF cheque here clients always make it good for her with a good cheque. At the end of the year she really wouldn't have any bad debts

  • 0 in reply to silverado

    and the good cheque will be applied to the new created NSF invoice (which may or may not have the bank's NSF charge)

    so when you reconcile the bank, sage will show the original deposit, the NSF reversal (the nsf invoice) and the replacement deposit - and you can clear them to match the bank statement

  • 0 in reply to Roger L

    Go into your receipt module and select 'include fully paid invoices'. Use as chq nbr "RetNSFChqxxx" and the date will be the date the bank shows as returned. Find the invoice(s) that was originally paid and re-enter in Amt Received column as a negative number. Verify the amount of receipt is the same as the original chq and then post it.

    Now when the replacement amount comes in you can repost back to those same invoice numbers which are now showing as outstanding. You can also create another invoice for the NSF charges if the replacement payment includes that.

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  • 0 in reply to Roger L

    Go into your receipt module and select 'include fully paid invoices'. Use as chq nbr "RetNSFChqxxx" and the date will be the date the bank shows as returned. Find the invoice(s) that was originally paid and re-enter in Amt Received column as a negative number. Verify the amount of receipt is the same as the original chq and then post it.

    Now when the replacement amount comes in you can repost back to those same invoice numbers which are now showing as outstanding. You can also create another invoice for the NSF charges if the replacement payment includes that.

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