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Spread purchase invoice costs over different months

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is it possible to spread expenses over several months without making a separate journal entry?

example:

We receive an invoice with 20 hours worked in the month of February and 10 in March. Can I book the invoice so that those 20 hours have the booking date February and 10 hours March.

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    91,078 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Spread purchase invoice costs over different months

    Hi, I also think deferrals posting is a good idea.

    More details: https://yzhums.com/24008/

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    Hope this helps.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    1,035 Moderator on at
    RE: Spread purchase invoice costs over different months

    Have you looked into using the deferral templates for this?

    learn.microsoft.com/.../finance-how-defer-revenue-expenses

  • Joel95 Profile Picture
    221 on at
    RE: Spread purchase invoice costs over different months

    in other accounting programmes I worked with it was possible to make two separeate lines with same GL account but different booking dates. In this case I would fill for example:

    booking date 28-02-2023, 20 hours, on GL 'consultancy costs'

    booking date 01-03-2023, 10 hours, on GL 'consultancy costs'

    this way, the consulatncy charges came into the correct accounting month

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    DAnny3211 Profile Picture
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    RE: Spread purchase invoice costs over different months

    hi

    Yes, it is possible to spread expenses over several months without making a separate journal entry in Business Central. You can automatically defer or postpone them over a specified schedule

    DAniele

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    21,627 Moderator on at
    RE: Spread purchase invoice costs over different months

    Not sure about the entries, you have to choose one posting of each invoice, or you can create Sales Invoice entering two separeate lines with same GL account mentioned the different description of each line.

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