I would undo the transaction a bit differently, reversing the expense
entirely but booking the difference to a cancellation fee account, not a
hotel:
2016-09-06 * "Hotel booking" ^45e0f9f1288f
Expenses:Trips:Hotels -900.00 USD
Assets:PL:Bank:Checking 855.00 USD
Expenses:Trips:CancellationFees 5.00 USD
Furthermore, I tend to tie those types of transactions with a link (as
above), so I can report on their combined balances using "bean-doctor
linked".
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Zhuoyun Wei <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2016-09-08 23:05:59 [email protected] <[email protected]>:
> >
> > 2016-09-06 * "Hotel booking"
> > Assets:PL:Bank:Checking -900.00 USD
> > Expenses:Trips:Hotels 900.00 USD
> >
>
> Personally I will use another transaction like this for this kind of
> situation:
>
> 2016-09-07 * "Hotel booking (refund)"
> Expenses:Trips:Hotels -855.00 USD ; 95% of 900.00 USD
> Assets:PL:Bank:Checking +855.00 USD ; or whatever account name
>
> This way I know the date of payment and the date of refund.
>
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