Two expense accounts for one transaction?

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: 09 Sep 2001 12:35:24 CDT
Matt Kowske said:

>Question:
>
>Is it possible to enter an expense transaction under two seperate
>accounts and have it only count once?  Here is the situation:  I have an
>Expense:Auto:Gas account to keep track of how much money I spend on gas,
>but I also have a Expense:Travel account that I use to keep track of how
>much I spend on traveling.  Now when I use my car to travel and I have
>to buy gas to do that, I would like it to record that as both a Travel
>expense and a Auto:Gas expense.  Is this possible, without making my
>monthly expense report be inaccurate?  Could it somehow only record that
>I made the expense once, but under two different categores? TIA

You know, that's an interesting problem.  I was actually 
contemplating something similar last week, where I'd like to be able 
to track vacation expenses the same way.  I have Expenses:Dining and 
Expenses:Auto:Gas, both of which could also be used while I'm on 
vacation, but unless I log them separately under something like 
Expenses:Vacation:Auto:Gas, etc., there's no telling what expenses 
are normal expenses or vacation related.

I suppose though, you could always just limit your date range to 
those dates that you know you traveled.  I don't know how else it 
could be done at this point.  But it is an interesting problem.
I'm very interested in seeing some responses by those with more 
accounting background than I have (which is 0) :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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