Thanks for the idea. I'll try to do it with one specific bucket for
now.
On 29 май, 19:18, Lance <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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