Thanks Brandon

On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 4:50:45 PM UTC-6 Brandon Olivares wrote:

> You’ve already recognized the income, so the realized income shouldn’t go 
> in Income at all. Why not just a credit to Assets:Notes:Note 1 and debit 
> to Assets:Cash or whatever your cash account is?
>
> On Mar 4, 2023, at 4:28 PM, Jasel17212 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for some input on how to book the following.
>
> Let's say I've loaned someone $1,000. Each month I receive PIK interest 
> <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paymentinkind.asp> on that note in 
> the amount of $10.00. I make an entry as follows:
>
> 2023/01/01 * Note 1 PIK Interest
>         Income:Interest:PIK Interest    -10.00 USD
>         Assets:Notes:Note 1
>
> Even though I haven't received this money as cash, I choose to include 
> this PIK interest in my tithes calculation:
>
>  = /^Income/
>          (Liabilities:Tithe)           0.10  
>
> When the note eventually pays off, my CPA needs to know that all of this 
> PIK interest has now been fully realized. I could back the accumulated PIK 
> interest out of the "Income:Interest:PIK Interest" account and put it into 
> an "Income:Interest:PIK Interest Realized" account, but this messes up my 
> automatic tithes calculation. My other thought is to add the realized 
> interest to a virtual "Income:Interest:PIK Interest Realized" account, but 
> now my income reports are off unless I remember to exclude one of the two 
> income accounts depending on whether or not I want a cash basis view or 
> accrual view of my income.
>
> Anyone have thoughts on a good way to handle this?
>
> Thanks
> JL
>
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