Surprise loans, how to retroactively book them?

2021-10-14 Thread Casey Link
Hi there, This is more of an accounting question than a beancount technical question, but I've seen similar questions before, so I hope it's ok. I use beancount to run the bookkeeping for a small local club. We have insurance costs every year. It turns out that a portion of these insurance e

Re: Surprise loans, how to retroactively book them?

2021-10-14 Thread 'Patrick Ruckstuhl' via Beancount
Hi Casey, I would book it like this 2019-11-30 * "Insurance provider" ""   Assets:BankAccount -500.00 EUR   Expenses:Insurance 500.00 EUR 2021-10-14 * "Alice Insurance Loan" "surprise loan from 2019-11-30"   Assets:Receivable:Alice   100.00 EUR   Expenses:Insurance   -100.00 EUR 2020-11-01

Re: Surprise loans, how to retroactively book them?

2021-10-14 Thread Martin Blais
+1 thanks Patrick I would add that a peculiarity is that this is one of those cases where one posts a negative amount to reduce an expense. On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 06:13 'Patrick Ruckstuhl' via Beancount < beancount@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi Casey, > > I would book it like this > > 2019-11-30 *