Bill shared between business and personal accounts

[Derek Atkins]

Don't use it that way...  What I would do is pay the bill from your
personal account and then use an Employee Expense Voucher to reimburse
yourself for the portion that's from the business.

-derek

Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hello list,
>
> Running a home-based business as we do, there are a number of costs that 
> are shared between the business and personal accounts - phone, 
> electricity, water, gas, automobile, etc.  It is fairly simple to split 
> these bills if they are entered directly, but I have just tried to do so 
> through the business A/P functions, and have to report that this does 
> not seem to work.  For example, the phone bill is split 75%/25% business 
> and personal.  I created a vendor record for the phone company, and a 
> bill.  Posted the bill into Accounts Payable. Processed the payment.  
> The only place where you might be able to specify two expense accounts 
> for a single bill is in the invoice itself, but (a) I recently 
> discovered that multiple line invoices don't work because of the 
> Accumulate Splits bug, and I don't want to update to 1.8.11 until gentoo 
> has the upgrade at least in testing, and (b) I don't appear to be able 
> to specify the correct account there anyway - the invoice item only 
> accepts Assets, Liabilities and Expenses, and the way I normally handle 
> the business paying for personal expenditure is via an Equity:Owner 
> Drawing account.
>
> The reason why I am trying to use A/P is that I normally pay bills via 
> an online banking BPAY process that allows me to schedule the payment on 
> the day that it is due, and I want to duplicate this in gnucash.  Is 
> there a better way to do this?
>
> Derrick
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