Reimbursable Expenses as a Volunteer

[daniels]

Hi,

I have searched the mailing list archives and Google for a case similar to
mine, but it seems that must people that ask this questions are either
consultants or self-employed and are going to get the reimbursement from
their clients, so I wanted to make sure that I was doing the right thing in
my situation. 

I work as a volunteer and get reimbursed expenses from the food that I buy
during the week. In most cases I have seen, people setup an assets account
called "reimbursable expenses" and credit it with x, while taking x from
their cash account for example. Is that the best practice? What if I wanted
to know that that expense was actually food, so that I still wanted to track
how much I spent on any given week on food, even though it wasn`t me that
was actually going to pay it at the end of the day. I couldn`t debit an
expense account called food and credit my reimbursable expenses account,
because that meant that my cash account would be wrong. I assume that at the
end of the day it is a choice that must be made, but I was just wondering if
I was missing some function or some other option.

I hope I was reasonably clear, thank you so much!



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