[GNC] Veihicle mileage cost such in HomeBank?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I would think it possible to do this in your regular books, with a bit of care.

I would favor using equity accounts only, but I suppose using Income/Expense (as you noted are really Equity anyway) is probably easier for many to wrap their head around.

The care would come in that you’d need to create new parent accounts of your fundamental type choice, and be sure not to include that part of your tree in ’normal’ reports.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 25, 2018, at 5:16 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/25/2018 2:32 PM, Riccardo Delpopolo Carciopolo wrote:
>> Hello Rich,
>> 
>> thank you for the extended explanation!
>> I think I would end to use a simple spreadsheet as you suggest.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
> HOWEVER (since this might be useful for others)
> 
> I use a spreadsheet for mileage since we want to be able to have totals by category. Medical and non-profit for taxes and we track civic and political too just to see how much driving we do for those. That few number of columns easy to do/print from a spread sheet.
> 
> In spite of the fact that gnucash is an accounting package, this could provide a simple example of using  "virtual books". Imagine for just a moment that there was a country whose currency was "miles". You could set up a very funny partial set of books. Instead of fundamental types asset, liability, equity, income, and expense suppose you did away with all but income and expense (technically those are of fundamental type equity). Under Income would be just a single account called "total miles". Under Expense would be an account for each mileage category you wanted to track plus one miscellaneous for other trips. The only report you would run would be the income statement. Your transactions are just total miles (income) allocated to the category (expense) << a single trip MIGHT need a split if for more than one purpose >>
> 
> If you only have a few categories, I'd use a spread sheet. But those can be annoying when MANY columns wide. Let's suppose that you did contracting jobs, perhaps a dozen or two every year, or even more. And suppose each of these had mileage associated with it. And suppose you wanted to track all of this << see how much mileage for each job" >>  Now using gnucash in the "funny" way might seem attractive.
> 
> Michael
> 
> Michael D Novack
> 
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