M/M Losey,
As you say, your actual cash funds can easily diverge from what is shown in
your GNC 'Cash on Hand" account.Instead of periodically equalizing via a
"Balance Adjustment" account, you might consider setting up some expense
accounts that allow you to be more definitive.
For recording known spending, you could have some accounts such as these:
- Expenses:Gifts
- Expenses:Gifts:Christmas
- Expenses:Dining
- Expenses:Dining:Cash Tips
- Expenses:Personal Care
- Expenses:Miscellaneous
When you get a haircut for example, you could enter that as a $25 transfer from
"Assets:Cash on Hand" to "Expenses:Personal Care".
If you are like me, at the end of the month you might find only $60 in your
wallet, while GNC shows $100 cash. Knowing that you did, but not remembering
where you spent the difference, you could always throw $40 in GNC from "Cash on
Hand" into "Miscellaneous".
Larry ________________________________
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 21:24:49 -0600
From: R Losey <[email protected]>
To: Abe Sternberg <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GNC] Interest Income
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In your example, one account is the savings account and the other would be
something like "Income:Interest Income".
I'm a non-bookkeeper (though I have had an overview of accounting);
unfortunately, the general language which we use has "debit" used to mean
"to take away from" and "credit" meaning "to add to". I could learn the
proper distinction, but I just turn off the formal terms.
To me, the idea of double-entry just means that every transaction needs to
balance... for example, a deposit to your checking account doesn't come out
of thin air -- it's either a salary or a gift or a refund or something you
sold: there has to be SOMETHING that it came from.
I had to create a "balance adjustment" account, since when I cash a check,
I add the cash to "Cash on Hand", but some of that money is private
spending money for family members, and that isn't tracked, so I routinely
have to update the "Cash on Hand" balance.
...
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