On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.truss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM J. A. Harris <prod...@harrisja.us> wrote: > > > On 3/17/24 15:54, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > > Those are "commodities" > > > > I am aware of that. Currencies, Funds, and NYSEs are all particular > > types of Commodities. There is no current support in gnucash for > > defining Commodities other than those three types. > > > > I wanted to keep track of mileage for corporate reimbursement purposes, so > I created a "FUND" with the symbol "Miles" abbreviated "M," and I created a > Liability account called Mileage, whose currency is Miles, with a contra > liability account called "Driving Owed," whose currency is Dollars. Every > time I enter "Miles" in the register, I make sure its exchange value in > Driving Owed dollars matches the current IRS reimbursement rate (which can > sometimes change multiple times during the year). > > When the company does a reimbursement for Driving Owed, a bank transaction > happens so the contra account to Driving Owed is the corporate bank > account. > > Maybe this is a perversion of the system somehow, but it seems to work for > me. > > It seems if you wanted to keep track of Credit Card Points or Airline Miles > or whatever, you could create a similar "currency" or "fund" that matches > your specification. But I presume there is some reason it doesn't work for > you in the same way mileage does in my example. > > You're not alone; I do something similar; for tracking the bonus points for retailer "Fred", I created a "stock" with the Symbol FBP (Fred Bonus Points) and use it to track points in and out of the bonus account. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
