Hi Alexander, the cancellation could look like this:
2016-09-07 * "Hotel booking refund" Assets:PL:Bank:Checking 850.00 USD Expenses:Trips:Hotels -900.00 USD Expenses:Trips:CancellationFees 50.00 USD This is assuming the refund was returned to your checking-account. This also assumes that you are tracking the cancellation fees in a separate expenses account. If you do not track the fees separately just book -850.00 USD on your Expenses:Trips:Hotels, so the fee of 50.00 USD will remain there as expenses for hotels, even if not consumed. Hope this helps! Best, Dominik PS: If you are new to Beancount, check out http://aumayr.github.io/fava/ => It's a web interface for Beancount. > Am 09.09.2016 um 08:05 schrieb [email protected]: > > Hi Martin. > > > I am trying to use Beancount to track my finances and it works really great > so far. However, I've just stumbled across a scenario where I don't > understand how I should reflect it in a journal. > > Suppose that I book a hotel on Monday for my upcoming weekend trip. I put a > transaction in my journal > > > 2016-09-06 * "Hotel booking" > Assets:PL:Bank:Checking -900.00 USD > Expenses:Trips:Hotels 900.00 USD > > But later I have to cancel my trip. Hence, I cancel my hotel booking. Due to > late cancellation hotel refunds me partially: 95% of original amount. > > Now my questions is how should I represent this refund in my journal? I don't > understand what account I should use for debit. > > Thanks > > -- > Alexander > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/fa811697-5003-43fe-863b-7f1630517356%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/F3AD1155-1B27-4898-AA7F-DE90DFA656B5%40aumayr.name. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
