Guidance for situation that I've got

[Kenyon Ralph]

On 2010-12-16T15:25:23-0800, 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.

I would leave it in the Imbalance-USD account, since that seems to be
what it is, an imbalance. You normally wouldn't have anything there,
so it should catch your eye when you skim your accounts, serving as a
reminder that it needs to be fixed.

-- 
Kenyon Ralph
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