I'm getting used to the more complex usages of Ledger, and have a little scenario that I hope someone will help walk me through. I'm running Ledger 3.
I have a small company with a few employees, we've just gotten started. I'm a terrible boss -- I was unable to pay salaries for the first couple of months. To make it up I paid part of the salaries out of my own personal account. Later our revenue stream kicked in, and I paid myself back for the salaries. I'd like records that show: 1. The dates that the employees should have been paid. 2. The dates that I actually paid them out of my account (say at the end of month two) 3. The date that money came into the company bank account, and I transferred it to my own account (say in the middle of month three), ideally this line would also somehow indicate why I was paying myself. So something like: 2011/01/01 Should have paid Bob and Alice Expenses:Salaries:Bob 5000 RMB Expenses:Salaries:Alice 5000 RMB Assets:Accounts:Eric's Personal Account ; or company account with some sort of note? or debt? 2011/02/01 Should have paid Bob and Alice Expenses:Salaries:Bob 5000 RMB Expenses:Salaries:Alice 5000 RMB ; same question here 2011/02/20 Actually paid Bob and Alice Liabilities:Debt ; I'm just making this up ?? 2011/03/05 Made money back Assets:Bank:Company Account 20000 HKD Income:Projects:Project X 2011/03/06 Paid myself back Assets:Bank:Company Account 20000 HKD Debt? 20000 RMB There's also a HKD -- RMB conversion, just to make things more fun. So just working out this much I'm thinking this will have something to do with liabilities, but I would very much appreciate it if someone could show me how this sort of thing should be done! Thanks, Eric
