Record a transaction with no amount

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 10 April 2010, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 15:44 +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 April 2010, . wrote:
> > > I want to record a transaction with no amount in it.
> > >
> > > Sometimes I don't need to pay the utility company if there is a credit
> > > on my account from the previous month.
> > >
> > > I still want to record the amount of natural gas and electricity I use
> > > over a month's period of time but with a credit to my utility account I
> > > can't enter an amount.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how to solve this?
> >
> > How have you booked the credit from the previous month ?
> >
> > If the amount payed then was more than was actually invoiced, this
> > overpayment should have been transferred to some account as well.
> >
> > When the next invoice comes in this is "paid for" by the credit of the
> > previous month from the account you recorded the overpayment in.
> >
> > An example in numbers:
> >
> > Suppose for Februari you get an invoice for 100 units of gas, say
> > equivalent of 100 €. However, in Februari, you paid 150€ to the company.
> >
> > So you get one transaction with 3 splits:
> > Checking account             -150
> > Utility:gas                  +100
> > Liability:Credit with vendor  +50
> 
> Should be Asset:Credit with vendor.
> 
> Phil
> 
Thanks, I suspected so much already... But other than that, the concept 
remains the same.

Geert