a few confusions

[locus]

As a new user, I am struggling with Quickbook now, I hope I can get some help from your guys.

After I sent out invoices to customers, I decided to give them a certain amount of discount or simply write off the total amount of receivable as bad debt, do I have to create a new journal entry to debit sales reveune and credit accounts receivable? or I need to make a adjustment to original invoices by putting in the negative figure in the same way as under MYOB?

Alternatively, if I get some discount from my suppliers or return some items to my suppliers, how do I have to do this in QuickBook?

When I need to collect the total amount of PAYG in filling out BAS, do I have to look at the individual employee's PAYG and add them up or I can use Quickbook to get the total PAYG? Thank you.

[gibbo]

Sorry I missed answering this post - I have been busy.
There are problems with discounts. Our wonderful tax laws have some peculiarities that make handling it very difficult. Because large suppliers have to send off their BAS monthly, the ATO has allowed them to assume that payments they will receive will include a discount they have allowed, even if the payment has not been made yet. Also, as Discounts affect the actual cost of goods, any discount will reduce the GST payable.
All of this meant that the way QuickBooks used to handle Discounts did not work. So they fixed it the easy way - they removed it from the programme!
The only way to handle a Discount is to either create a Credit or to alter the original Invoice. Do not use journal entries, particularly if you are under Cash Accounting. You MUST use the correct transactions and apply payments to Invoices in order for QuickBooks to correctly report your GST. Journal entries will put info in the right place - but QuickBooks cannot then use the info in many reports.