I think an equity account is of good use for this:
For example,
2017-01-01 * "Group Dinner"
Expenses:Food -100 USD
Equity:GroupContributions
This way the expenses get accounted towards your food purchases in your
ledger. And if you ever wanted to find out how much the group as a whole
has spent on all of these expenses in total, you could use the
Equity:GroupContributions account for that.
Regards,
Jitin
On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 7:18:30 PM UTC+5:30, Travis wrote:
>
> So I have a Beancount file for shared expenses and we add a specific
> amount each month. Sometimes one of us has to pay for something with their
> own creditcard/cash. These are shared expenses, that I would like to book
> in our shared ledger. I do not care who paid it (let's assume we split the
> cost externally), but I don't want to track these accounts. Is it possible
> to track these expenses, without calculating the extra money as income?
>
> My goal is that the profit graphs correctly represent our expenses without
> inflating the income. Does this even make sense from an accounting
> perspective?
>
> Could I use an equity account for this? How do you solve this?
>
>
>
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