how to track credit card rewards

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 21:54:45 EDT 2016


Be careful about those reward points though, their value changes from
time to time (normally with due warning of 21 days or something to
that effect), at least in my country.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Edward Doolittle
<edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
> There have been discussions about this issue in the past on the list. One
> solution is to use the XXX currency.
>
> On 18 October 2016 at 17:38, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi. I want to set up an asset account to track credit card rewards, which
>> are probably similar to airline miles. They are not a currency or a
>> security but they have an exchange rate when they are earned or used.
>> I cannot call them a currency but calling them a stock seems to add too
>> much complication since they come and go frequently
>> Can I simply set up an account similar to a foreign currency account with a
>> fictional security name as the commodity and no actual security to buy or
>> sell?
>> This would be mainly to trigger the exchange rate feature so I can trade
>> 100 Amazon Points for one Dollar off the bill
>>
>> David C
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