Advice for setting up house budget with roommates

[Derek Atkins]

You can do it the first time by hand.  Then the second time
you repeat the same description gnucash will autofill in the
splits as you had them last time.

GnuCash has no "macro" language.

-derek

harry_seldon <harry.seldon.f at gmail.com> writes:

> 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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