Am 6/18/2017 um 1:04 PM schrieb Adrien Monteleone: > I’ve been web searching to no avail on this one. It seems every result > assumes the perspective of the company’s books when answering this question. > I’m trying to find out what account to use for personal books. > > Let’s take an example of Bob and Company ABC. > > Bob seeds Company ABC with $1000 startup capital. > > In Company ABC’s books the entry looks like this: > > Dr. Cash $1000 > Cr. Owner’s Equity $1000 > > But what is the entry for Bob’s personal books? This shouldn’t be an expense. > Shouldn’t this be some sort of asset? It’s an investment on his part. > > Dr. ???? $1000 > Cr. Cash $1000 > > A similar situation would be Bob buys some equipment for the company using > his own funds. > > Company ABC’s books look like this: > > Dr. Fixed Assets $5000 > Cr. Owner’s Equity $5000 > > But from Bob’s perspective, I only have half the transaction: > > Dr. ???? $5000 > Cr. Cash $5000 > > A third scenario - Bob pays for a business expense, but doesn’t want a > re-imbursement right away, he wants to increase his equity in the company: > > Company ABC’s Books: > ==================== > Dr. Expense $100 > Cr. Owner’s Equity $100 > > In Bob’s Books: > =============== > Dr. ???? $100 > Cr. Cash $100 > > None of these seem to be a Stock, Bond, CD, Note, Loan, etc. > > Are there no special or conventional terms for asset accounts that exist as > equity in a company? (your own or even someone else’s) I should think this is > so common of an entry to have its own name than simply “Other Long Term > Investment." > > Thanks in advance, > Adrien > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Hi, i would consider that a credit to this companies. So Bob should have an account for given Credit. He is booking from hi cash to the Credit account greetings Martin _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
