You’d 1 or more debits to balance that $100 in credits. What you’re describing here is using accounts ‘virtually’ for tracking purposes.
That is doable, but lots of extra work for something simple. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 28, 2020 w5d28, at 7:46 AM, Peter West <[email protected]> wrote: > > How would this work? > > Set up an expense account for Vacation expenses. > > Set up other expense accounts for > Vacation fuel > Vacation accommodation > Vacation flights > Vacation entertainment > etc > > Note that these are also expense accounts. > > Enter your fuel, say $50, normally against your cash/cheque/credit card > account and, say, Vehicle expenses. These will be matching Cr and Dr entries. > > Then enter $50 against Vacation expenses (cr, I think?), and enter negative > $50 (also cr) against Vacation fuel. These will zero out, but the Vacation > expenses account will still show how much you spent on your vacation, and the > Vacation fuel account will show a negative amount for your vacation fuel > expenses. > > Peter _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
