credit card - disputed transaction

[Phil Longstaff]

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:30 +0100, Maf. King wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2010 12:28:13 Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > How would others enter a disputed transaction on a credit card?
> > Because I can't finish the reconciliation, only store it for the future
> > while the closing balance has not been reached.
> 
> Hi Liz.
> 
> I think that when my card got cloned a few years back, I took the view that 
> the fraudulent transactions had happened, and that the card company would 
> eventually give me a refund for them (which is what happened, about 2 
> statements later, once they realised that near-simultaneous transactions in 
> London and Miami could not both be valid!).  
> 
> I'm fairly sure that I recorded the "bogus" info in GC to allow reconciling to 
> happen, possibly entering them to a sub-account of assets, rather than 
> expenses.  I'd have to look back through previous years archives to be sure, 
> though.

That's what I've done - created Assets:Receivables:Fraudulent Charges
and enter the items there.

Phil