Accounting Help? (GnuCash 2.6.11)

Greg Feneis mfeneis at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 19:58:04 EST 2016


Hi Rafael,

Thanks for getting back to me.  I didn't mean to link the two examples
together.  That is, at some point during the operation of my business I may
want to take some pay out of it.  When I write a check to me and pay
myself, how do I account for that?  Do I just create an expense account
called pay or something and use that?

Then, in a different circumstance, at some point I may need to add money to
the company so it can buy some equipment or some such.  How do I account
for adding money to the company.  If I only deposit to the business
checking, then the accounts receivable account goes negative because I
haven't invoiced for it.  At least that seems like what goes on.  Is this
called adding capital to the business?





Kind regards,

Greg Feneis
650-678-4670

 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>




On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Rafael Sánchez Treviño <elrafasan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Greg,
>
> I would say that you need to make a credit to an account payable (you) and
> then a debit. I mean, it is like you are lending money to your business (so
> it owes you), then you will debit that account when the business pays you.
>
> For instance:
> 1.
> Cash      100
>                       Accounts Payable:Greg 100  (This is a liability
> account)
> Loan to buy this fancy equipment
>
> 2.
> Accounts Payable:Greg 100
>                                         Cash 100
> To pay back the loan.
>
> Let me know if that helps. Regards
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've got this small business
>> ​(sole proprietor, cash basis) ​
>> and I converted from Quickbooks back at the beginning of 2013.
>> ​  So far so good, I think, except I'm not certain I'm accounting
>> correctly
>> when I add my personal money to the business in a case where my business
>> needs an expensive piece of equipment and there's not enough in the
>> business checking account to cover it.  Also, when I pay myself from the
>> business checking account, how should that be correctly accounted for?  ​
>>
>>
>> ​Thanks!​
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Greg Feneis
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