[GNC] Income not appearing in P&L report

[Mahon Finbar]

Thanks both.

Thanks for the 'accounting' way of doing it and I will try some of the 
proposals.

My case is a little bit different; just to clarify - I pay a fixed 
amount per month, as many utilities suppliers offer, but, my supplier 
cannot (yet) handle the reduction from a government subsidy, on age 
grounds, so the authorities pay that monthly. Therefore I have two 
transactions, paying the fixed amount and receiving the subsidy as an 
"income" event. Slight wrinkle, the subsidy is, for reasons I do not 
understand, different every month, there is a higher and a lower sum 
every second month. 😕

I'll check the report settings for that issue.

Thanks, Barry

On 30/03/2021 16:21, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
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>> I get reimbursed  a certain amount of electricity costs each month, 
>> as a separate transaction in to my bank a/c. I enter them as 
>> income:reimbursement in the gnucash transaction.
>>
>> However, nothing appears in my P&L report under 'reimbursement' but 
>> if I click on the headline in the report they all appear on the list 
>> of reimbursements as assets:BoIBarry as entries under 'transfer'  
>> (where BoI Barry is my bank a/c)
>>
>> Why?
>
> Two problems here, only one of which is gnucash
>
> 1) Reimbursements should be considered reduction of the expense rather 
> than income. Eventually somebody else paid this portion of your 
> expenses, not you. This is a matter of accounting, independent of gnucash
>
> If you need to track pending reimbursements (to make sure you receive 
> them) you can do it this way: Let's say because of "work at home" your 
> employer is paying 10% of your electric bill: (by which I mean YOU pay 
> the electric bill, submit a reimbursement request, and receive a 
> reimbursement)
>
> a) You pay an electric bill:  This would be a split transaction, 
> credit your bank account for the payment and debit 90% to electricity 
> expense and 10% to pending reimbursements << that would be an asset 
> account -- somebody owes you something, the origin of the term "debit" >>
>
> b) Your employer reimburses you:  Debit the bank account and credit 
> pending reimbursements. Notice that the balance of pending 
> reimbursements shows you what is outstanding (reimbursements you have 
> not yet received)
>
>
> 2) BUT --- you claim to have  gnucash problem with some income or 
> expense account not showing on your P&L report (has various names for 
> essentially the same report). You need to check report options. The 
> most likely reasons for an account to be missing in this report:
>
> a) You are applying explicit selection as to what accounts to appear. 
> If you aren't explicitly specifying accounts, it isn't the cause
>
> b) You are suing the option "do not show accounts with zero balance" 
> AND there were no transactions affecting this account DURING THE TIME 
> INTERVAL OF THE REPORT. There is always a time interval for this report.
>
> Michael D Novack
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