I'm just starting to use the business functions of GnuCash.. most things I've sorted out fairly easily, but I'm having issues figuring out the best way to use Employee expense vouchers.
The intended use looks pretty straightforward: enter line items attached to the appropriate expense account, post, pay the employee. However, I have two problems with that: 1) the voucher line item descriptions aren't included in the split descriptions in the expense accounts, so it's hard to trace an item back to its purpose from looking at an expense ledger 2) there's no easy way to deal with taxes in the employee vouchers, so my purchases tax is unaccounted for So.. I'd like to assign employee expenses to some other account type, and enter the receipts as vendor bills. I'm trying to decide how to tie the two together. My first thought was that employee expenses are obviously a liability, however that ends up balancing a liability against a liability (Liabilities:Employee Expenses vs. Liabilities:Accounts Payable). Perhaps an asset makes more sense? Balance Liabilities:Accounts Payable against Assets:Employee Expenses, and then pay bills out of that asset? While I'm certain using an asset would work, I'm curious how do other people do this? Cheers, Matt Pounsett _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
