Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread davidcousens49
Mattio, Since you receive the discount at the time you purchase the pack and it is available to you at that point so that is really the point at which I would record it. David On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 23:02 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hi David, Gyle. > > Thank you for your input. It looks bot

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi David, Gyle. Thank you for your input. It looks both of you agree that this should be a negative expense rather than in income. On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 06:35:22AM +1000, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > This would allow you to keep track on > both the original expense and the economic benefi

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread davidcousens49
Mattio, It is possible more correctly described as a discount on the expense so instead of crediting an Income:Bonuses account you could credit what accountants call a contra account to Expenses:Travel:Rental which couuld be named Expenses:Travel:Rental:Discounts which sums into the parent expense

Re: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread Gyle McCollam
1 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses Hi! I wanted to more correctly account for the local "moped sharing" company we have here, which offers to buy a prepaid package that comes with a bonus. In this case, I bough

[GNC] The correct way to account for prepaid things that comes with bonuses

2021-12-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi! I wanted to more correctly account for the local "moped sharing" company we have here, which offers to buy a prepaid package that comes with a bonus. In this case, I bought a 90€ package that comes with a 40€ bonus, so my in-app wallet is credited with 130€. I planned to store that 130€ in As