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

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