Deposits Report

Aaron Laws dartme18 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 09:10:38 EST 2014


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:25 PM, TanyaMc <tanyamc at gwtc.net> wrote:

> reimbursables.png
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4673797/reimbursables.png>
> chart.png <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4673797/chart.png>
> cash_flow_report.png
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4673797/cash_flow_report.png>
> deposit.png <
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4673797/deposit.png>
>
> Deposit graphic shows one Sunday's offering plus the reimbursement that
> doesn't show up on reports (because it is an asset account).
>
> Cash flow report shows the report for that same date, criteria including
> reimbursement account, but no data displayed.
>
> Chart of accounts for your info.
>
> Reimbursables to show entries in the asset account.
>
> And again, I do not want to track the reimbursables as inc/expense. I want
> to show all deposits made for a month and the 'funds'/accounts they went
> into. So I want to show deposits to the checking fund subaccounts and the
> asset account.
>
>
I'm proceeding with the assumption that Reimbursable Manse Expense is an
Asset account based on the images and what you have said. In my opinion, an
asset account having the last word "expense" creates cognitive dissonance
:-)

In deposit.png, it looks like three types of revenue were received: Camp
donations, Sponsored Children donations, and non-earmarked (general fund)
contributions, and the appropriate Asset accounts were debited. Also, money
was moved from the Reimbursable Manse Expense account to the General Fund
account.

I think the gnucash guide recommends a different chart of accounts
structure to help guard against confusion, and to help make things super
clear: 5 root-level accounts: Assets, Liability, Equity, Revenue, Expense,
with accounts of each type within those 5 root-level accounts.

I re-read your original e-mail. while I still don't understand much of it,
I'm thinking that the Reimbursable Manse Expense account is not properly
marked as an asset account? Right click it on the chart of accounts and
ensure its account type is "Asset" (or something appropriate).

In Christ,
Aaron Laws


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