feat(arap): a write-off on the timeline, and the CPA's note (P4b S7)
The viewer's invoice page already drew a WriteOff movement; now the fixture proves it: a written-off invoice reads Written off, owes nothing, and its timeline's "Written off" row opens the entry (the screenshot invoice-written-off). Needs attention gains the one item the tax rule asks for: a write-off made this calendar year is listed, one per invoice, as "Write-off awaiting the CPA's note", with what was written off, the day, and the prompt that opens the document. Whether a debt is worthless, and in which year, is a tax judgment that stays with the CPA (plan 8.3.16); the books flag it and keep the evidence beside it until the year ends. The item is computed in ledger-package's one attention function, so the viewer and books.start see it alike; view_model.rs compares the two reads on the same books. The handbook's invoices-and-bills section starts here (S4.5 adds the issue, terms and payment steps around it): step 4 says when to void, to write off, or to reverse, and the recovery procedures D-49 records — the same year, reverse the write-off and record the payment; a later year, a plain entry to a bad-debt-recoveries revenue account, the invoice staying written off (IRC §111). Tests: a_write_off_shows_on_the_timeline, a_write_off_is_flagged_for_the_cpa.
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# Invoices and bills
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An invoice is money owed to you (Accounts Receivable, 1200); a bill is money
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you owe (Accounts Payable, 2000). Each is a document whose figures come from
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the ledger lines tagged with it: what is paid, discounted, written off and
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still owed is read from those lines, never kept beside them, so a reversal,
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a void or a bounced payment is right by construction. `books.documents`
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lists them, `books.document` shows one with its timeline, and
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`books.control_check` proves the control accounts equal their documents.
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## Step 4: void, write off, or reverse
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One of these, and only one, fits what happened:
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- **Void it** (`books.void_document`) when the document should never have
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existed: a duplicate, the wrong customer or vendor, a test entry. It is
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reversed, keeps its id (and, once numbered, its number) and reads void;
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nothing is deleted. Refused while a payment stands on it: reverse that
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payment first, and the refusal names it. Use a void for a mistake, never
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for an invoice that was real.
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- **Write it off** (`books.write_off_invoice`) when the invoice was real
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and the work or goods went out, but the customer will not or cannot pay.
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That is a bad debt: the books post Dr Bad Debt Expense 6990 / Cr Accounts
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Receivable for what will not be collected, and what it owes falls from
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that day. The evidence of worthlessness — the collection letters, the
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bankruptcy or liquidation notice, the collection agency's report — is
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filed with the write-off in the same call (`upload_id`, or an
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`existing_attachment_id` already filed), because a bad debt is deducted
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on all the pertinent evidence (Treas. Reg. §1.166-2(a)). Write off all of
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it, or part of it with `amount`: a partial write-off is deductible to the
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extent charged off (Treas. Reg. §1.166-3(a)), and the rest stays owed and
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in the aging. The books must be on the accrual basis: a cash-basis
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company never counted the invoice as income, so there is no basis to
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deduct (IRC §166; Treas. Reg. §1.166-1(e)), and the tool refuses.
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- **Reverse an entry** (`books.reverse_entry`) when a posted entry is
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wrong: a payment against the wrong invoice, a wrong amount, a check that
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bounced, a write-off made too soon. Posted is forever: the correction is
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an opposite entry linked to the one it reverses, never an edit and never
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a delete. Reversing a payment puts the invoice back to owing what it did;
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reversing a write-off re-instates the debt.
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A bill is never written off: a vendor releases you with a vendor credit or
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by voiding its own invoice, and until then you owe it (ASC 405-20-40-1). If
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a vendor's bill was wrong, ask for a corrected bill or record a credit when
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one is built; void it only when it should never have been entered.
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## Recovering a debt written off
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- **The same tax year**: reverse the write-off — `books.reverse_entry` on
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the write-off's entry. The invoice reopens, owing exactly what the
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write-off took off; then record the payment with `books.receive_payment`
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as usual. Nothing else is needed: within the year the deduction comes
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back out, and the payment is a payment.
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- **A later tax year**: do not reverse the write-off. Record a plain entry
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— `books.draft_entry`, `books.add_line` on each side, `books.post_entry`
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— debiting the deposit account and crediting a "Bad debt recoveries"
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revenue account (tax category other income), with a memo naming the
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invoice. The invoice stays written off, and the recovery is income in the
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year it arrives (IRC §111); the CPA sees it apart from the year's sales.
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Neither procedure invents a new kind of movement on the document: the books
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record what happened, and the invoice's timeline shows the write-off (and,
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if it was reversed, that it no longer stands).
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## What the CPA will check
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The agings tie to 1200 and 2000 at month and year end (they do by
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construction: the control check says so). Every write-off carries its
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reason and its evidence of collection efforts. Write-offs are not used in
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place of a credit memo for a valid invoice, and never to hide a mistake
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that a void would show. Whether a debt is worthless, and in which year, is
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a tax judgment that stays with the CPA: the books flag each write-off made
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this year in Needs attention, with the evidence beside it, until the year
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ends.
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## The evidence rule
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Every entry needs its receipt ({evidence_rule}). A document the books post
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themselves — an invoice, a bill, a payment, a write-off — carries its own:
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the issued copy, the vendor's bill, the payment's reference, the evidence of
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worthlessness. A reversal needs none of its own: its original carries it.
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@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ pub const SECTIONS: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
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"revenue-and-payouts",
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include_str!("../handbook/revenue-and-payouts.md"),
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),
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// S4.5 gives invoices and bills their first three and fifth steps; S7
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// adds step 4 (void, write off or reverse) and the recovery
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// procedures (plan 8.2).
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(
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"invoices-and-bills",
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include_str!("../handbook/invoices-and-bills.md"),
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),
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("projects", include_str!("../handbook/projects.md")),
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(
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"parties-and-tins",
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