Decreases in Expenses?

[Alex Hill]

In a commercial context a returned product would result in a decrease in 
expense as the item is added to the inventory (or shrinkage) again.

Cheers,
Alex
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jhonnatan Perkins" <jhonperkins at gmail.com>
To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: Decreases in Expenses?


> Hello all.
>
> I was wondering, the expenses accounts EVER at all, have debits? All I 
> know
> and what seems natural to me is that they always tend to increase but 
> never
> decrease, since they are expenses that are long gone and you wont get
> anything back.
>
> So far I was doing something wrong and that was using an Expenses Account 
> as
> a "placeholder" for "penny adjusment", you know, when you shop for 
> groceries
> and they say the bill is 10.99 but they charge you 11. If viceversa (you 
> are
> the one who wins), then I was using the same Expenses Account, but now I
> think I should move those transactions to some 
> Income:Bonus:Penny_Adjustment
> account.
> Am I crazy?
>
> Also on a related note, what is a fast way to copy or move transactions 
> from
> one account to other? Cant help myself on this one.
>
> Thanks for your time.
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