some how everyone is missing the boat

i get how income and expenses work for accounting

but there is something that the system is tracking to get it in the right spot

last night i did a test     i took two bills and posted them manually in the system with the same dates and then i paid them manually and they showed up in the cash report basis

there are too many for me to manually key all what i need in the system 

why the manually input of bills and payments shows up but when i do the import of bills and payments they do not show up

there has got to be something on the templete that i am not getting right or not toggling

it has to do with how the templete is recording the transaction   (i am missing something)

if i could only export a bill out of QBDT then i could see what that templete has compared to what i am doing on my templetes that i am importing