Hi Adrian, What I suggested was negative credits.
I have sometimes accidentally ended up with similar situations when I have made a mistake with a complex split. With my current setup, the negative amounts show up in red with a minus sign. However, if other vacation expenses were not also being pre-allocated to non-vacation accounts, you would end up with a hotch-potch. I use sub-accounts to track my budget allocations. From every incoming payment, I divert various budgetary amounts to a single bank account, and keep track of how much I have allocated for various future expenses by means of sub-accounts of that single bank account. That can get a bit confusing. Peter -- Peter West [email protected] “The greatest among you shall be your servant.” > On 29 Jan 2020, at 3:47 am, Adrien Monteleone > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
