Non-Profit Donations

[Jean-David Beyer]

Pablo Francesca wrote:
> What account type is your Donations account? 

If this is a reply to me,
I should have called it "Gifts Received" and it is an Income account. 
(We also have a Donations account, but that is Expense and is for 
donations we make to other worthy causes.)

 > If it is an asset type, I'm
> not following your organizing method. If its an income type, it seems 
> like your saying you have income accounts for donors and income accounts 
> by donation type. 

No. Income almost always goes into an Asset account; i.e., checking 
account, although rarely it goes direct to an expense account.

> That seems even odder. Another possibility is that 
> you have income sub accounts under each income donor account.  Is that 
> what you are doing?

No. For gifts received, they are all under Income.
> 
> This would certainly allow for accurate donor reporting, but then it 
> would seem to break reporting by donation type.  If this what you're 
> doing, then I guess you would have export all the data an manipulate it 
> in a spreadsheet.  I was trying to avoid that.

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