Income Statement report to show loan paydown amount?

Mike or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com
Tue Jan 9 16:59:41 EST 2018


On 1/9/2018 1:40 PM, Tj Junior wrote:
> Wondering if this is possible, the income statement appears to be the
> closest I've been able to find.  Looking to find a summary of income and
> expenses summarized (e.g total over 1 year rather than by transaction), but
> I'd like it to show what's paid towards loans as well.  The income portion
> is already there, it's the expense portion I'm having trouble with.
>
The portion of your mortgage payment that is applied to reducing the 
principle of the loan is NOT an expense, which is why not showing on the 
Income Statement report. It is a reduction of a liability (the mortgage).

In addition to running the Income Statement for a period you should run 
a Balance Sheet for the start of the period (immediately before) and the 
end of the period. It is there that you should see the reduction of the 
liability.

Michael D Novack

PS: Strictly speaking, that portion of your mortgage payment that goes 
into escrow to pay taxes when due, possibly also insurance premiums when 
due, is also not an expense << the escrow account is a restricted asset 
-- when funds from it are actually used to pay tax bills, etc. is the 
transaction which is the expense >>


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