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?

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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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Nitin Verma 21,708 Moderator on at

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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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DAnny3211 11,397 on at

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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

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Joel95 221 on at

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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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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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Have you looked into using the deferral templates for this?

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

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YUN ZHU 95,729 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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

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

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

ZHU

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