Refunds and cash flow reports.

[Wes Metz]

I believe the Cash Flow report is supposed to display each and every cash
movement. The Expenses:Accommodations and Credit Card accounts will net to
zero after both Airbnb transactions are posted
.
If you run a Profit & Loss report that spans the time frame of the two
transactions, they will net to zero. Click on the Expenses:Accommodations
account on the Profit & Loss report, you will see both transactions.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Michael Ferrara <rnr.ferrara at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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