To Adrien's point, there are many cases where the expenses are covered by other accounts such as fuel and maintenance for vehicles, but I was addressing the cases where certain expenses have a different tax bucket than the norm or possibly even off-the-books such as personal car used for business, medical or charity.
And to address Christopher, another off-the-books income account would be a way to offset the otherwise double charged expenses. On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:29 AM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 15:53, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > > > What I do for non-cash donations (to Goodwill, for example) is enter the > > value in an expense account called 'Donations - non-cash'. You could have > > expense accounts for milage and volunteer time if appropriate. (I have > run > > my consultancy from home for 27 years and have separate books for > personal > > and business transactions.) > > > > But what lies at the other end of mileage? eg drive 20km for visiting > client & back, claim $0.50/km, means you write $10 mileage claim for today > and deduct what account? > > > For example, you have personal auto expenses that may or may not be > broken out into R&M, Fuel, etc. Those are paid cash/check/charge and are > accounted for in full > > No. e.g. auto expenses can be either percentage business use of car (i.e. > labour intensive, track all motoring expenses) or simplified dollar per > business km. I wish to claim for dollar per expense. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
