Refunds and cash flow reports.

[Michael Ferrara]

>From an accounting perspective, I argue that the "inflated" cash flow you
see is indeed correct. There was more money flowing both in and out of the
account. You had a large bubble of cash (credit) on-hand and changing-hands.

If you need to separate the refund (and purchase) from the
Expenses:Accommodations account -- for reporting purposes -- try putting
those two transactions in a sub-account, e.g.
Expenses:Accommodations:Cancelled.

For cash flow in particular, you may even put said txns in any account on
the tree; the change in money will still be reported.

Hope that helps.

On Apr 27, 2016 3:36 PM, "Pedro E. M. Brito" <pedroembrito at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have an Expenses:Accommodations account.
>
> Airbnb charged me $286 for a stay. The host had to cancel and the
> amount was refunded, so I added a corresponding transaction to return
> the funds to my credit card account.
>
> But when perusing a Cash Flow report, the amount shows up as both
> Money In and Money Out. This is not what I expected, that is, I
> expected only the net amount going in and out of a given account to
> show up, so an account would only appear once in a Cash Flow report,
> and a transaction followed by the reverse transaction would have no
> effect on that report.
>
> Of course, I could delete the first transaction but since the refund
> transaction didn't come in until the next billing cycle that would
> throw off a bunch of stuff.
>
> Is there a way to make it work like I'd like it to?
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question.
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