On May 29, 2:24 am, Oleg Iavorskyi <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for reply. Maybe for this particular case it will work but > in case I'd need to change money flows due to overtaking from "Dining > Out" bucket it would be really hard to remember to move money back to > the original bucket. > > In any case I think that owing money shouldn't be threated as income > or expense. I didn't really eat out for two persons moreover I do need > to know that I still have this money as my asset regardless of where > they physically is. I think of them more like transfers and in other > application I've modeled them as transfers too - from my checking > account to special personal account "John Doe", for example. This way > I could see our interpersonal balance with "John" - either negative, > when I have to return credit, or positive, when I should get them > back. >
If you really want to track at this level of detail, you could create a bucket for every person and split your Dining Out transactions that way. A slightly less complex solution would be to create a single generic "Money Loaned" bucket and whenever you loan someone money, you assign it to this bucket and put their name in the memo field. This way you can quickly search for a person's name and quickly see all the money loaned out to and paid back from that person and the sum of those transactions and this wouldn't skew your Dining Out or other buckets. But unless there is going to be a long period of time between loaning out the money and getting paid back, I'm not sure this is worth the extra trouble. If you assign the entire transaction to "Dining Out", sure it looks like you spent a little more than you really did, but that will correct itself as soon as you get paid back. -Lance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
