My Starbucks challenge

[Steve]

One of my asset accounts is my Starbucks card.

If I want to load the card with $10 from my checking account, it's an easy
allocation to my Starbucks asset account.  If I later spend $5 off my
Starbucks card, it's an easy deduction from my Starbucks asset account and a
credit to my dining expense category.  Works well.

Here's my question.  I buy a Groupon (or similar promotion) for Starbucks
for $10, worth $15 (which I transfer at the Starbucks site onto my Starbucks
card).  I pay the $10 for the Groupon out of my checking account and it's
credited to my Starbucks asset account.  What's the best way to get the
other $5 to show up in the Starbucks asset account?  For the time being,
I've been putting an entry for the $5 in this example in the Starbucks asset
account and allocating it to equity open balance which I realize makes no
sense.

Ideas?



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