My solution is to have an Expenses:Mileage account, with an
unused/obsolete currency, and change its symbol to "km".
I only record business mileage, i.e. description: "travel to client in
next town", dated 01/05/2018
* Expenses:Business:Mileage +40km
* Equity:Mileage -40km
Thus my annual Transaction Report to accountant Expenses:Business:* will
include aggregate amounts.
For added convenience, the currency can be converted to own currency via
options, using currency exchange rate = official govt mileage rate, thus
the $claimable is generated. But I'd keep in original "km" currency for
clarity.
The disadvantage is it'll mess up net worth.
Thus there's no need to keep a separate spreadsheet.
On 26/08/18 02:32, Riccardo Delpopolo Carciopolo wrote:
Hello Rich,
thank you for the extended explanation!
I think I would end to use a simple spreadsheet as you suggest.
Regards
Il giorno sab 25 ago 2018 alle ore 20:28 Rich Shepard <
rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> ha scritto:
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018, Riccardo Delpopolo Carciopolo wrote:
Thank you for answering, but I could not understand the difference
between
an accounting program and a personal finance management program. I've
successfully used gnucash to track my expenses for some month, but I
really miss a way to track the mileage of my car. Would be nice such
functionality.
Riccardo,
Tracking vehicle milage has nothing to do with finance, bookkeeping, or
accounting. I recommend you use a spreadsheet to track the milage.
Anyway, probably I have to switch to a software that meets my needs.
Your choice. For monetary data GnuCash is outstanding. For other data,
such as vehicle milage, a spreadsheet, database, or plain text file is more
apprpropriate.
Would you consider vehicle milage an asset, expense, liability, or
equity?
If none of the above then it does not belong in financial software any more
than would records of your clothing sizes.
Regards,
Rich
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