On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:53 PM, francois PEGORY <[email protected]> wrote:
> For me in order to not create an account for each person, i created an > account assets:Friends. > > Envoyé de mon iPhone > > Le 8 sept. 2017 à 12:32, Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On Friday, September 8, 2017 at 4:05:33 PM UTC+7, Metin Akat wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> In my experience, it doesn't matter at all. >> I have lots of this kind of accounts. For example for various people who >> owe me or I owe them some money (for trips etc.). After several years of >> having both Assets and Liabilities account for everyone, I just gave in and >> now I only have Assets:Lent:PersonA which can go negative. >> > > Maybe this doesn't happen in your case (most people don't charge interest > to their friends) but would you also just have a single Interest category > and use that for both income & expense? > > I'm leaning towards just having a single Asset and a single Income > category using negative amounts in them. > > I have never had any ambiguity with Expenses and Income, so I use them both and they are very natural to me. > -- > 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/7bb47742-aafe-4f3f-9878-b1271aabf779%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/7bb47742-aafe-4f3f-9878-b1271aabf779%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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/420E7B06-8674-467C-BE23-3FC59BDC8640%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/420E7B06-8674-467C-BE23-3FC59BDC8640%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CAEk80b%3DwF9vQO3sCcEzPpDjxeZ35-15Wn34c6jqCLqyPOZBvwg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
