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I get some use of Sage Line 50, purely for invoicing customers really at my place of work. I do however, quote customer prices, then invoice and open some mail. I have noticed that some customers have paid cheques for lets say £129.99 but have just filled a cheque in for £130. This doesn't happen a lot, very rarely actually but what do you do with all the pennies when reconciling the bank?

To be honest i have started invoicing upto the nearest whole pound to help the dumbo's out.



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I tend to leave them as a payment on account. I suppose you could hide them in the tea fun

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Hehehe


1p payment on account.............


I'm actually saving them up to buy a couple of penny black arrow bars.

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Ha ha, if you're really lucky you may be able to save up for some milk to go with the tea fund!

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I get some use of Sage Line 50, purely for invoicing customers really at my place of work. I do however, quote customer prices, then invoice and open some mail. I have noticed that some customers have paid cheques for lets say £129.99 but have just filled a cheque in for £130. This doesn't happen a lot, very rarely actually but what do you do with all the pennies when reconciling the bank?

To be honest i have started invoicing upto the nearest whole pound to help the dumbo's out.


 Wasn't there a film (comedy) about a bank worker who syphoned off all the odd cents left in dormant accounts, and accumulated a lot of money. I seem to recall it was based on a real event.

 



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I leave them on account for a while but eventually get fed of seeing them on the debtors list and write them off using the customer write off/ refund tool in Sage 50.

You can set the maximum you want to write off, and it will write off any small under/ overpayments to bad debt.

I can not stand to see odd pennies here and there so normally write them off quite quickly. Is it OK to that? It is probably about 25p a year so rather insignificant.

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I leave them on account for a while but eventually get fed of seeing them on the debtors list and write them off using the customer write off/ refund tool in Sage 50.

You can set the maximum you want to write off, and it will write off any small under/ overpayments to bad debt.

I can not stand to see odd pennies here and there so normally write them off quite quickly. Is it OK to that? It is probably about 25p a year so rather insignificant.


 This is what I do too.  I cannot stand seeing all the little odd pennies either.  25p or so a year is nothing in the grand scheme of things.  Materiality?



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Yep on sage post as a payment on account however write off straight away to keep all the ledgers tidy.

However I wouldn't write off to bad debts as they are not bad debts, put to purchases. The taxman won't be bothered where you put it as its a penny

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Wella wrote:
Spamkebab wrote:

I get some use of Sage Line 50, purely for invoicing customers really at my place of work. I do however, quote customer prices, then invoice and open some mail. I have noticed that some customers have paid cheques for lets say £129.99 but have just filled a cheque in for £130. This doesn't happen a lot, very rarely actually but what do you do with all the pennies when reconciling the bank?

To be honest i have started invoicing upto the nearest whole pound to help the dumbo's out.


 Wasn't there a film (comedy) about a bank worker who syphoned off all the odd cents left in dormant accounts, and accumulated a lot of money. I seem to recall it was based on a real event. 


Is there not three or four of them involved? Does one of them not get shifted from his office into a cupboard because he can't speak up to object? (Talk about being vague).



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Richard Prior springs to mind....... I'd thought it was Brewsters Millions but could have been one of the Superman films.

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The real life event happened after the film.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17370_7-completely-unrealistic-movie-plots-that-came-true.html

Office Space
article on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space


This had been bugging me for ages.

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One of these days i will be taken seriously lol.

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