Thanks Colin That's done the trick. Cheers On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can edit the transfer into the expense account and change the > recipient to be the asset acct. You will get a warning that you are > changing a reconciled transaction but it will not affect the reconcile > (just make sure you don't change the amount transferred). > > Colin > > On 29 June 2018 at 04:34, Tony Vanson <tonyvan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My thanks to all respondents. It is finally making sense to my befuddled > > brain. > > However I have one more spanner in the works. I had already transferred > > funds from my Current Assets:Bank account to Expenses:Staff. > > My Bank account has been reconciled. > > What, if any, process is available to transfer the forward payment funds > > from Expenses:Staff to the newly created Current Assets:Forward Payment > > Credit account without messing things up, or would I need to delete the > > original transfer and re-enter it to reflect the new process? > > Thanks again for all your patience. > > Cheers > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> > wrote: > > > >> On 06/28/2018 12:25 AM, Tony Vanson wrote: > >> > 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 > >> > >> I would set it up as an asset. Even if you physically handed them the > >> cash and they physically put it into their wallet for future > >> disbursement as needed, it is still your asset. If anything is left > >> over when you return it would come back to you for put back into the > bank. > >> > >> I presume you will get periodic statements about how that asset is being > >> disbursed so you can make the appropriate entries to transfer funds to > >> the appropriate expense accounts (just like you do now, except the asset > >> side is not the bank but the "staff accountant"). > >> > >> That way you could notice if the funds were running short and do online > >> banking to send more funds to that person. > >> > 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. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > *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. > -- *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. 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