[GNC] Reconciling credit card

[Mahon Finbar]

OK, no problem with writing to help.

The original entry is just an 'ordinary' entry of an expense, on a 
specific date. No issues.

However, having removed the original error from the credit card a/c I 
tried to make an entry in the travel a/c as a 'rebate' as that was the 
only option available for money  in.

That resulted in two entries in expenses travel both under the same 
transfer, one under expense and the other on the next line under rebate.

I have noticed that the original expenditure is 'transfer' under 
'assets' and my bank a/c name, while the two entries under the 
reimbursement are 'transfer' as expenses:travel. Is there some anomaly 
there?

BTW, I am not that rich to have missed 1000€ I just wondered why my 
credit card a/c entries were so unusual. 😁

The other question is why does expenses:travel have 'rebate' as a column 
heading??

Finbar

On 12/12/2022 21:19, Liz Dodd wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:44:49 +0000
> Mahon Finbar <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr> wrote:
>
>> Another possibility?
>>
>> In March 2021 I was reimbursed 1,340.98 by an airline for a trip to
>> Japan which was cancelled due to Covid.
>>
>> In error I entered the reimbursement against my credit card, although
>> I had paid it from my bank.
>>
>> That would account for the 'credit' on the credit card?
>>
>> However, the original spend was allocated to 'expenses' > travel.
>> When I try to rectify it as a rebate on the expenses a/c the column
>> option is 'rebate' but it appears twice, as an expense and a rebate
>> and the expenses a/c does not reflect the reduction in the outgoings?
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Finbar
>>
> Finbar
> I am loath to add more advice, because I'm not sure where you are in
> solving this.
> Let's just imagine that you have just found the error, that the
> reimbursement is in the wrong account in your books. Maybe you
> found it when the bank account reconciliation was incorrect.
> At this point
> Did you add the transaction to the bank account in Gnucash?
>
> Go to your Expenses:Travel account. Is that reimbursement recorded once
> or twice there?
> You would expect to have one entry, linked to the bank account. It
> should decrease your expenses.
> If you have two entries, delete the one linked to the credit card.
> If you have one entry, and it is linked to the credit card, edit it to
> be linked to the bank account. Of course, any of us would have already
> noticed an extra thousand dollars in a bank account and tried to find
> the reason. ;)
>
> Liz
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