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How to identify an unapproved Registered invoice and Registered Invoice that has been approved/Posted in a tax invoice approval journal?

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Hi Dynamics Community

I am working on a project for my organisation to implement registered invoices. I have researched all the options extensively so please accept as given that the registered invoice and invoice approval process is a good fit for the requirements.

However there appears to be one significant issue that I am hoping that someone can suggest an workable solution to?  The issue is being able to easily identify via reports and inquires whether a registered invoice has been or not yet been approved in an invoice approval journal. This is important because if the registered invoice is not approved and just an accrual then we will need to be able to report separately or sometimes exclude from reports. For any one not familiar the  accounting entries are as follows:

Registered invoice (VINR)

Account

Debit

Credit

Unapproved expense (P&L)

100

 

Accrued expense (BS)

 

100

 

Approve registered invoice (VINAP)

Account

Debit

Credit

Unapproved expense (P&L)

 

100

Approved expense (P&L)

100

 

Accrued expense (BS)

100

 

AP Trade (BS)

 

100

 

So for example if I am running a vendor ageing report and I want to reconcile this to the AP trade account I need to exclude unapproved registered invoices.

In my test set-up I have used two journal names VINR and VINAP (see screen shots of journal name set-up).

Vendor-invoice-register-VINR.png

Vendor-invoice-Approval-journal-VINAP.png

They both have voucher sequence numbers prefixed by the journal name. However, when the VINR is selected into the approval journal the sequence number used is VINR the same as the original invoice. So if you look at a vendor invoice inquiry screen (see screen shot) 

Tax-Invoice-journal-inquiry.png

 VINR-00000004, 5 & 6 have been approved and 3 has been selected into a vendor invoice approval journal but not yet posted. But without looking at the voucher details you cannot tell. Which means I cannot create a view over this screen to filter by approved or unapproved. It would be nice if the VINAP voucher sequence number was used for the approved invoices. I fear the way this works is by design and is unfortunately a significant flaw in what is otherwise very perfect functionality for our requirements.

Any suggestions on a solution will be gratefully received.

Best regards

Simon

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    RE: How to identify an unapproved Registered invoice and Registered Invoice that has been approved/Posted in a tax invoice approval journal?

    Hi Ludwig

    Success I was able to join the vendor transaction table in vendor ageing filter criteria and select by the approved flag to achieve the result I need.

    Thanks for your help it would have me a long time to track down the correct field to filter on.

    Best regards

    Simon

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    RE: How to identify an unapproved Registered invoice and Registered Invoice that has been approved/Posted in a tax invoice approval journal?

    Hi Ludwig

    thanks for your always prompt replies. I have not tried this yet as I had not noticed that particular field. I will see if it can be included in the filtering on the vendor ageing report and let you know if I am successful.  

    I still find it slightly strange the voucher sequence number for invoice approval journal is not used although you have to create one to be able to create the approval journal name. It would be so much easier for searching and filtering if the approved registered invoices used the approval sequence number, sounds like I need to make this suggestion on the ideas site.

    Best regards

    Simon

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    RE: How to identify an unapproved Registered invoice and Registered Invoice that has been approved/Posted in a tax invoice approval journal?

    Hello Simon,

    If I register an invoice then I can identify it based on the approved yes/no field in the vendor transactions. 

    Example:

    appr1.png

    Have you tried using this criteria for filtering your aging report?

    Best regards, 

    Ludwig

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