Automate VAT expense account

[Jacco Ermers]

Never really looked at that. Thought that was more a "Computer/Car 
devaluation" tool. But in all fairness, that creates more hassle than 
calculation my own VAT in the proper account, or am I missing the workflow?



On 12/13/2016 03:24 PM, Fred Bone wrote:
> On 13 December 2016 at 9:45, Jacco Ermers said:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I keep track of my business expenses via Gnucash. Now a lot of time
>> there are similar expenses that I book so it tries to autofill them (ie
>> Drycleaning).
>>
>> These expenses are split and I always need to correct the VAT amount as
>> well:
>>
>> Drycleaning:
>>
>> Expense:                 13.22
>> VAT:                         2.78
>> Business Account:                 16.00
>>
>> Is there a way to make this easier (without creating a supplier with
>> invoices etc)? I would prefer to just put in Drycleaning €16.00 and let
>> gnucash figure out the VAT and expense.
> I use an SX for this sort of messy irregular txn. Create it with
> Frequency:Once; then when you need it, find it in the SX Editor, update
> the date to today, save, then do a Since Last Run to process it. Fill in
> the variable(s) and GnuCash does the rest.
>
>
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