[GNC] Where to charge? Ins pays us, we pay vendor.
Michael or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Tue Feb 11 17:37:44 EST 2020
On 2/11/2020 11:47 AM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
> When an insurance claim occurs the insurance pays us and we pay the vendor.
> How to we charge the deposit from the insurance company and the payment to the vendor?
> I considered setting up an Expense Account named Insurance Transactions or Insured Events or whatever...
> Then allocating the insurance payment to that "Expense" account
> and then allocating the vendor payment to the same "Expense" account
> Or would you suggest just using the Insurance Payments Account where you record payments for the policy?
> How would you guys handle such an instance?
> Thanks for any help.
This is an accounting question, not a gnucash question, and to really
know how to answer your question would need to know what conditions (or
lack of conditions) were attached to the payment from the insurance company.
I'll perhaps need to give an example? In 2006 we had a house fire, and
our insurance had "replacement" coverage. So each covered thing (or
category) had TWO amounts associated with it. One amount was for the
current depreciated value assigned, the other (far higher) was if we
were choosing to replace. For what we opted to replace, they would give
us the higher amount but we had to later submit proof/receipts that we
had made the replacement purchase. For what we accepted the depreciated
value, no conditions attached to the money.
And let me back off a bit. How did you do the accounting for the loss
for which this insurance payment is made?
Michael D Novack
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