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September 13, 2022
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Loan account / bill payments by lender

  • September 13, 2022
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Many of my clients’ bills are paid by a 3rd party/another of their companies as a loan.

Currently, I record this as follows.

I’ve created a Liability account “Non-Current Liabilities - notes payable” for that 3rd party (Lender).

for each bill they pay I create a journal entry to credit this liability and debit my creditor-supplier.

I then match the journal entry with the bill to show the bill as paid and by that lender.

This is a very long and tedious process, being that I have many such transactions. It also leaves a more complicated trail.

Can anything simpler be done to make that liability account work more like a “Line of credit” except that in my case it is a long term/Non Current liability whilst the Line of Credit option is only available under Current Liability.

 

Thanks, Lee

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September 13, 2022

Hi Lee, thanks for joining the QB Community - I don't believe there would be an alternate way that would be quicker than matching the JE, as it's not possible to select a liability account directly as the payment account on the bill payment.