Deposits as Liabilities or other?
Maf. King
maf at chilwell.net
Mon Jun 19 09:11:16 EDT 2006
On Monday 19 Jun 2006 11:52, Ian S. Worthington wrote:
> Hi.
>
<SNIP>
> 1. Set the currency to have no decimals -- I'm working in a currency that
> doesn't have a fractional component.
>
This is my only suggestion for 1. - You can set this on a per-account basis.
(I'm still using 1.8.x, YMMV!)
>From the account tree listing, select an account and then edit from the
toolbar. There is an option for "Smallest Fraction", which you can set to 1.
I think that will do what you need.
> 2. My wife's family, for whom this is for, rents widgets to a small number
> of people. To rent a widget during the day costs, say $40 and during the
> night costs $38. In addition there is some sort of deposit/savings plan
> associated with each rental of $2, which is held against damages and
> returned at year end, or when the cutomer closes their account. (If you
> think this is odd, you're not alone.)
>
> My first though was to create a Liability to each customer and split the
> money received to Assets:Cash and Liabilities:customer, but then I actually
> have more cash than the account shows.
>
> Can someone suggest what the correct procedure here is?
>
Well, Presumably your wife's family owns the widgets, so there should be some
sort of asset account to reflect their value. (eg Assets:Widgets)
Since GC doesn't do inventory for you, you could *maybe* split this into 2
sub-accounts, (rentable and rented) to reflect the number of widgets that are
"in stock" at any one time.
When someone rents a widget, I think you need to reflect rental income and
liability of the deposit. This sort of thing may work for you :
Income:Rental 40.00
Liability:Deposits 2.00
Asset:Bank(or Cash) 42.00
Assets:Widget:rentable -1
Assets:Widget:rented +1
What this will not show you (easily) is how much deposit is held for any
particular customer. You could do this by sub-accounts under the liability
tree, or if the number of customers is small enough, do it by hand using
reports with the customer name in the memo field.
HTH, $0.02, IANAA etc.
Maf.
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>
> Ian
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> Ian S Worthington
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