Thanks for your responses.

I've been using expenses & income for a while now, not really satisfied with
it. I'll try using a Reimburseables account for a while, see how that works
out.



"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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Comments inline.

"Paul Pedersen" <no-reply[at]swen.com> wrote in message
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True. But this is still good data. I want to know if I'm unbalanced in a
period on this stuff and need to track where the money is.

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You can't selectively tell it to quit whining. But you can tell Money you
really do want to categorized inceom as expense or vice versa every time you
do it with one enter key.

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So does the imbalance in expenses to income.

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True enough. Or, as noted above, you can just use the expense category in
the first place. This is why I do this with reimbursibles like this.

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What's good? Honest accounting? Use the expenses and income.

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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Except that they often come in different periods.



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I'd prefer to do that only for that one category, but it doesn't seem to be
possible.



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That also serves the purpose of reminding me when reimbursements are falling
behind.

It's kind of annoying to set up what should be an expense category as a
transfer instead, but it can be done.




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IOW, no "good" answer. But either would be usable. I still remember entering
"negative salary" in Quicken to account for payroll deductions (15 years
ago).

Thanks.

Assuming you had an expense category and added the expenses, Money also
"overstates" your expenses. That sounds like a wash to me.

As to using the same category, that's surely another way some people use.
Money complains but you can tell it to get over it, or you can turn off the
complaining forever in Tools|Options.

As to the reimbursable receivables account, this is another way.

There is no One Right Answer. Each method has plusses/minuses. Whichever
works best for you is what you should do.

"Paul Pedersen" <no-reply[at]swen.com> wrote in message
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One problem with that approach is that it makes Money overstate your income
(even if it's non-taxable and doesn't show up on tax reports). For instance,
last month was unusual in that expense reimbursements were more than double
my income, and Money seems to think I made three times as much as I actually
did. (Would that it were true.)

If I create an expense category "reimburseable expenses" and try to add
reimbursements to that category, Money complains that I'm treating income as
an expense.

Would it be better to have a "Reimburseables" account, and treat everything
as a transfer in or out of that?




"bs" <bsohn[at]bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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I manage job reimbursement by using both an expense and and income category.
When I make expenditures for work, I dump them into the expense category Job
Related Expenses. When I get reimbursed from my company, I categorize these
into the income category Job Reimbursements. Neither of these categories is
tagged for taxing purposes.

I also maintain a customized report that only shows the transactions in the
above referenced categories. This allows me to see if I'm getting reimbursed
for everything that I'm spending.

Good luck,
-bs

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:21:01 -0700, "Ryan"
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When you transfer money from your bank account to your wallet, your
net worth has not changed. Therefore, it is not an expense or an
income. It is simply a transfer.

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This is different. When you incurred the expense, you allocated it to
some category. You should enter the reimbursement as a negative
expense against the same category. This way, the two will offset.
(This is the same way to handle returning an item you bought for a
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Some transfer the expenses to a cash account then transfer the
reimbursements from there. Others just use Job Expense:Reimbursable (or
similar) and Other Income:Job Expense Reimbursement (or similar). There is
no one right answer, but either of these seem preferable to Unassigned.

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Hi.

I am having trouble categorizing transfers from one account to another, or
reimbursements from work. For example, when I transfer money from one
account, it comes across as a blank category and it isn't an expense or
income, because I have already categorizes the underlyng expenses or income.

Same idea with a reimbursement from work. I get a check from work that is
an expense account payment, and I have already spend the money, so it doesn't
fit.

Now my income and expenses reports show this massive category of "unassigned."

How are other folks doing it?