Down Payment Not affecting the party Account Balance

Question

Dear All,
When I am posting any down payment invoice (A/P or A/R) then the party account is nullified after the payment is posted against it. Now for Advance payments the down payment option is used but then the BP Account Balance does not reflect the down payment balance. How to resolve this issue with a work around. I do not preffer to use the "Payment On Acount" option.
For Example:
Advance paid to Vendor: Down Payment Invoice: Rs 10000
Outgoing Paymnet for the D/P invoice: Rs 10000
A/P Invoice raised for the Vendor: Amount Rs 4000 and adjusted with the Down Payment (Rs 4000 drawn from DP)
Now The System shows the BP Account Balance as 0 where as it should hold a debit balance of Rs 6000
Please suggest me a work around
Regards
Raj

Answer 1

Him
Inorder to keep the advance amount as debit balance,you must define control account in the BP Master Data(Under Accouting tab->General tab-Control account indicated by ...->Define a account in Downpayment payables.
Here is the differece in AP Downpayment Request and AP Downpayment Invoice
     AP Downpayment Request                                   AP Downpayment Invoice(Proforma Invoice)
--   Must be fully paid                                                 can be partially paid
--   No accounting transactions made                        Accounting transactins are made
--  Track the payments paid to vendors(AP)              Issue & Receive invoice(Including tax) for advances paid or received
    or payments mad by cusotmers(AR)
Similarities in them
--No stock postings are made
--Can be created from a base document
Now in your case as i suggested to make use of AP downpayment Request for advances.The full cycle will be as follows
1.Create PO(No acounting transactions are made)
2.Create AP Downpayment request based on the PO(No acounting transactions are made)
3.Create Outgoing payment by selecting the AP Downpayment request.
AccountingTransaction
Db-BP(Control account-Downpayment payables)
Cr-Bank account
4.Create a AP invoice
AccountingTransaction
Db-Stock
Cr-BP Account(Sundary creditors)
5.Apply downpayment request to the AP Invoice
AccountingTransaction
Db-BP Account(Sundary creditors)
Cr-BP(Control account-Downpayment payables)
Cr-Bank Account
Note:Do test the full cycle in the test database and see the results and get confirmation from the clients accounting person
Hope this method suits for your requiremet !