handling of "joint" expenses

[Derek Atkins]

I can't think of any problems, but who maintains the joint account
balance?  How do you make sure you don't overdraw the account?

-derek

Don Coleman <don at coleman.org> writes:

> So I and my partner have joint accounts for joint expenses.   We're
> careful to put equal amounts of money in, so we don't generally track
> individual outflows though some balancing account.
>
> Occasionally we do have some expense which we end up paying out of a
> non-joint account, and we'll make a transfer to balance things -- but
> I'd like to have a way of tracking that I "reconciled" a particular
> transaction against a joint account.
>
> In an account of type expense,  the "R" field isn't generally used
> (according to some documentation I've read), so my idea it to just
> mark it as "cleared".
>
> I could also just enter a value in the Num field (which is almost
> always blank in our accounts, because we never use checks).
>
> How "bad" is it to use the "R" field this way (only in expense accounts)?
>
> What sort of trouble am I going to get into?
>
> Any suggestions for a simple and better way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
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