Somebody's credit and a liability to a buyer

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <26766045.post at talk.nabble.com>, Gastan <bmg at centrum.sk> 
writes
>
>Hello, all.
>
>I'm pretty new in accounting (just for home purposes) and I don't know the
>right terminology - and not in English for sure. Maybe that's why I have not
>found here what I'm looking for. If it's already answered somewhere, please,
>don't be angry, I really tried it before asking.
>
>Case one:
>I'm travelling to my office by car and I take some people with me. They pay
>some fixed agreed amount for one trip. Sometimes they give exactly what they
>should immediately on the day of the trip, sometimes they pay after few
>trips whole debt or just part of it and some of them do some pre-pay - they
>pay e.g. for the whole week - but they for example cannot go with me on some
>days and they "consume" the pre-paid amount sometimes in the future that
>nobody knows when.

Okay, someone may tell me I'm wrong but this seems simple. It's just 
basic customer accounting. I'm not sure with my credits/debits but ...

Every time you give someone a lift, you credit their trip account and 
debit it to your trip account. If they give you a trip, you do the 
reverse.

When they pay you, you debit it to their trip account and credit it to 
your bank/cash.
>
>Of course we lend/borrow money each to other for some other things, not just
>for trips. If somebody forgets the wallet and needs money for that day, etc.
>
debit it to your bank/cash and credit it to their trip.

>What I need is some easy and simple way how to get a bill for each passenger
>with the one final balance: if I owe some money/trips to him or s/he owes
>money to me for the unpaid trips or some other lendings.

If you have an account for car-share, and subaccounts for each person it 
will give you a total balance plus how much each person owes you.
>
>Case two:
>Somebody buys something I asked him for and pays it. I got the good and a
>liability to the buyer. How this shall be correctly entered?

He's a supplier. credit the good to your assets and debit it to his 
supplier account.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Wol
-- 
Anthony W. Youngman - anthony at thewolery.demon.co.uk