Hi there, This is more of an accounting question than a beancount technical question, but I've seen similar questions before, so I hope it's ok.
I use beancount to run the bookkeeping for a small local club. We have insurance costs every year. It turns out that a portion of these insurance expenses included "extra" coverage for certain members. These members are supposed to payback their share. I need to amend the books to represent the fact that the club is owned money. I know how we *should* have done it, something like this: 2019-11-30 * "Insurance provider" "payment for insurance" Assets:BankAccount -500.00 EUR Expenses:Insurance 400.00 EUR Assets:Receivable:Alice 100.00 EUR 2020-01-01 * "Alice" "she pays back her share" Assets:Receivable:Alice -100.00 EUR Assets:BankAccount 100.00 EUR The problem is we only booked the expense as a simple expense. Is there a way to enter these loans into the ledger such that I don't edit the past expense transactions? I've been trying something like this 2019-11-30 * "Insurance provider" "" Assets:BankAccount -500.00 EUR Expenses:Insurance 500.00 EUR 2021-10-14 * "Alice Insurance Loan" "surprise loan from 2019-11-30" Assets:Receivable:Alice 100.00 EUR Assets:Loans -100.00 EUR 2020-11-01 * "Alice" "she pays back her share" Assets:Receivable:Alice -100.00 EUR Assets:Loans 100.00 EUR Assets:Loans -100.00 EUR Assets:BankAccount 100.00 EUR This balances, but I still have this Assets:Loans account hanging around with -100 EUR :( Would love some creative tips on how to manage this. Thanks! Casey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/685c42fc-eacf-4aac-88b1-976040f5a132n%40googlegroups.com.
