Guidance for situation that I've got

[Robin Chattopadhyay]

I would debit it to some sort of temporary Asset account. Such as
Assets:Cash Owed to Me or Assets:Loan or something along those lines.

As an aside... with respect to the claim with the bank, if you're in the
U.S. , an ATM transaction is covered by Reg E which generally requires
provisional credit within about three business days. I'd be surprised if it
takes the whole 45 days for final resolution; the bank is just as
out-of-balance as you are and they (at least at the bank I work at) are
reasonably motivated to get back into balance.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:25 PM, FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Just not sure on the logistics of accounts for this situation
>
> So I have two checking accounts, and normally as a cash transaction I take
> money from one account, and put it in the other, and it's fairly easy and I
> have a regular transaction as
>
> Assets:Account1 -$200
> Assets:Account2 +$200
>
> On occasion, my wallet is empty, and i keep some of the cash, so I have
>
> Assets:Account1 -$200
> Assets:Account2 +$100
> Expenses:Miscellaneous +$100
>
> (pretty much anything I pay for in cash is an expenses:Misc to me, this is
> personal accounting so it's not that important)
>
> However, this time when I took the money, the ATM machine failed to count
> the money, couldn't give it back to me, so I had to manually input the
> total, and for some reason the total that it put on the receipt wasn't the
> same as the amount I actually put in, so I'm in a quandary as to how to
> record this?
>
> I've put in a claim with the bank, and they are going to investigate, and
> hopefully come up with my missing cash, but I have no idea how to handle in
> the meantime (because it could be upto $45 days before it's resolved, one
> way or another).
>
> I know I'll have
>
> Assets:Account1 -$200
>
> Since I did take the money out, and I'll need a
>
> Assets:Account2 +$100
>
> Since that's the amount that account 2 did show up with, but I don't know
> what to do with the other $100, I didn't spend it, I don't want it to be an
> expense (it really isn't) but I'm not sure where else to put it.
>
> - James Duerr
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