[GNC] accounts setup (how to duplicate same payment in two expense accounts)

[Adrien Monteleone]

You’d 1 or more debits to balance that $100 in credits.

What you’re describing here is using accounts ‘virtually’ for tracking purposes.

That is doable, but lots of extra work for something simple.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 28, 2020 w5d28, at 7:46 AM, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
> How would this work?
> 
> Set up an expense account for Vacation expenses.
> 
> Set up other expense accounts for
> Vacation fuel
> Vacation accommodation
> Vacation flights
> Vacation entertainment
> etc
> 
> Note that these are also expense accounts.
> 
> Enter your fuel, say $50, normally against your cash/cheque/credit card account and, say, Vehicle expenses. These will be matching Cr and Dr entries.
> 
> Then enter $50 against Vacation expenses (cr, I think?), and enter negative $50 (also cr) against Vacation fuel. These will zero out, but the Vacation expenses account will still show how much you spent on your vacation, and the Vacation fuel account will show a negative amount for your vacation fuel expenses.
> 
> Peter