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Just started on Sage and am trying to teach myself, but what do you do if part of an invoice relates to personal purchases, I would normally split between drawings and business but there is nothing in the manual about drawings or personal spending. I am doing a self employed sole trader.

You can do the same thing as you would in your manual books.

If you enter 2 consecutive transactions with the same date and reference Sage will treat them as splits.

So splitting a £117.50 invoice would be two splits,
one to 3xxx (drawings) for £58.75 T9 £0.00 VAT and
one to 7xxx (the normal expense code) for £50.00 T1 £8.75 VAT

This same sort of thing happens where there are mixed staff/company purchases, where directors buy things and offset against their loan accounts and so on. The same principle applies in all these cases.

Hope this clears it up for you.

Thank you very much for that - very helpful