Advice for setting up house budget with roommates

[harry_seldon]

Hi, 

I am new to GNUcash. Is there an automatic way to do the repartition between
you and your housemates ? Is there any kind of macro in GNU cash ? 
It would allow to enter a line in your checking account like "Rent 1000$"
and then launching the macro would 
- credit the expense
- debit of 3/4 the other housemates' asset accounts. 

I am doing the same as you to represent the transaction. But there is
something I do not like : it is that the total rent expense do not actually
appear in the expenses (only 1/4). I do not know how to make it appear
without dealing with a too complex transaction.

H


Jason Ahrens wrote:
> 
> Patrick Clery said the following on 29/10/2007 9:23 PM:
>> What I would like to know is has anyone here setup a similar system for a 
>> shared living situation and could share how they did it? We have tried to
>> set 
>> this up except it became redundant having to enter Can anyone recall of
>> any 
>> similar examples of this in the mailing list archives?
>>   
> I've done similar but I'm the central bookkeeper for my situation so the
> house funds are all tracked through my regular finances. In my
> situation, the others don't care about tracking of individual expenses
> for  themselves, so what I do is the following (4 people situation):
> 
> 1) Create an asset account for each roommate.
> 2) When a purchase is made I credit the person who made the purchase for
> 3/4 the value in the asset account
> 3) I debit everyone else 1/4 the value in the asset account. My 1/4 goes
> to the proper expense type for my own tracking.
> 
> I pay rent, so Rent comes out of my chequing account and gets charged
> appropriately.
> 
> 4) When people pay me back, I credit their Asset account either toward
> my Cash or Chequing account, as appropriate.
> 
> I'm note quite sure how you'd work a house-only account though. You may
> need to get into some of the "small business" components...
> 
> Jason
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