Reimbursable Expenses as a Volunteer

[Colin Law]

On 4 January 2014 11:44, daniels <danielrsilva8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

You could use sub accounts of the reimbursable account for food, fuel, etc.

Colin