Hi Aaron, This is a common practice, often the account is called receivable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounts_receivable Regards, Patrick On February 1, 2021 4:03:07 PM GMT+01:00, Aaron Stacy <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi everyone, I'd like to account for 2020 income at the end of the year >that didn't show up in my bank account until 2021. > >Typically I use the date funds are available in my account as the >source-of-truth for reconciling income and bank statements, since this >kinda matters to me more than when my employer initiated the transfer. > >But I'd also like to be able to query calendar-yearly-income, and if I book >these transactions in 2021, that won't match tax records. > >I'm thinking about splitting these into 2 transactions via a "transfer >account ><https://beancount.github.io/docs/settlement_dates_in_beancount.html#transfer-accounts>," >i.e.: > >; Pay stub December 2020 >2020-12-31 * "Let's get that 🥖" ^transfer-12345 > Income:Hooli:Salary -20.00 USD > Expenses:Taxes:Y2020:US:Federal 5.00 USD > Assets:Hooli:Transfer > >; Bank statement January 2020 >2021-01-04 * "" ^transfer-12345 > Assets:MyBank:Checking 15.00 USD > Assets:Hooli:Transfer > >Does this seem reasonable? Any thoughts on Assets:Hooli:Transfer vs >Assets:MyBank:Checking:Transfer? > >Thanks! > >-- >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 view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACjABkmeg%2BmGM1jCZo6H89Fnor6tO8vbmj5MeoCxFscvy2SAaw%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/D9DDCB25-A982-469A-A8FD-427EA2514529%40ch.tario.org.
