I generally create a credit against the bank where the money to be saved is, and a debit to some sort of a suspense account, even imbalance would do. It would show up as an unreconciled transaction each month.
Of course you could also drop it into a savings account and earn some interest on it :-) On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 16:09 Griffin <grif...@bernevyl.com> wrote: > > This is more accounting/procedural than about Gnucash. > > Suppose I had an amount of money that I needed to protect so that it was > available for a future occasion. What would be the "preferred" way to do > this. > > I could create the transaction in the account ledger and future date it. > > I could create an expense transaction, but not future date it, and then > when the time comes, repay it. > > I could transfer it to either an asset or liability account, and when the > time comes, repay it. > > I'd be interested in your thoughts. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
