<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz" target="_blank">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 06/07/13 08:45, Ori Idan wrote:<br>
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<div>Again you did not understand me.</div>
<div>It is illegal to treat proforma as if it was an invoice
and thus create double transactions.</div>
<div>Since you will issue an invoice when you get the
payment.</div>
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Double accounting need be <b>either</b> cash based <b>or</b>
commitment based. You cannot validly mix the two. That much is true.
However:<br>
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<li>The requirements by law to approve an invoicing system need
not include accounting at all, much less make sure it conforms
to any particular standard. It is true that that will not allow
you to issue אישור ניהול ספרים if you are required to keep
double bookkeeping, but most people who are required to do that
pay someone to do it. As such, I don't think saying "illegal"
does this justice.</li>
<li>Performa invoices transactions have three stages, instead of
the more traditional two. There is the payment requirement stage
(the performa invoice), the formal transaction stage (the tax
invoice) and the actual payment. You are right that creating two
transactions, one for the performa and one for the tax invoices,
is wrong, whether it is illegal largely depends on the way the
tax is calculated. If the VAT payment is calculated to the right
amount at the right time, I don't see how that is a problem.</li></ol></div></blockquote><div>Performa invoice have two stages (the third one is the receipt). The bug Linet had was that they would record transactions the same as invoice and thus when issuing the invoice you had two monitarry tansactions while you should have had only one.</div>
<div>So it was never balanced since if you issued an invoice on 1000 ILS, received payment of 1000 ILS The balance is 0 which is Ok.</div><div>If you had the Performa recorded as transactions you would have a balance of 1000.</div>
<div>For simplification I did not include VAT here.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Ori Idan</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>