Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an Expense not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets? Cheers
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: > On Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:53:02 BST Tony Vanson wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hopefully someone can advise me how to treat the following problem which > > stumps me. > > I am using GNUcash 2.6.18 on Windows 10. > > I shall be away for several months and have transferred credit from my > > Savings account to my Staff account with a lump sum amount for her to pay > > her Salary, Electricity, Pool chemicals, Internet access etc, on the due > > date. All these are set up as expense accounts. > > All accounts, apart from her Salary and Internet access, are variable in > > amount and payment date. > > I assume that I have to split the lump sum to the various accounts as > they > > are paid or is there some other method? > > I also need to take into account that the payment I've made to the Staff > > account may be too small or too large. > > Any enlightenment to a personally perplexing problem would be greatly > > appreciated. > > P.S. I only use GNUcash for my personal information and does not have any > > taxation or other legal requirement. > > Cheers > > Hi Tony. > > Do you have accounts in GC that represent your Savings account & Staff > accounts? > > To me it seems that you should let GC reflect reality - you've got a > transaction from Assets:Savings to Assets:StaffAccount. as the payments > are > made, you have transactions between Assets:StaffAccount & expense accounts > as > appropriate. (presumably, you could be emailed details of payments made to > keep your GC up to date?) > > If, on your return, you have balance left in Assets:StaffAccount, just > record > a transaction putting it back into savings. > > HTH, > Maf. > > > > > -- *Tony Vanson* *The older I get,* *the better I was* _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
