2008-07-26 GnuCash IRC logs

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02:47:54 <PoniesVista> anyone around?
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03:00:56 <PoniesVista> anyone home?
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03:18:54 <warlord> PoniesVista: keep in mind that most of the people here who would answer your questions are in the US. it's 3am there right now.
03:19:38 <warlord> To answer your second question first: That very much depends on where you are. You'd need to ask a local tax lawyer or accountant.
03:20:24 <PoniesVista> Thank you. I'm in the US too :).
03:20:37 <warlord> As for your former question: the way I account for it would be to NOT put them into various "expense" accounts but instead put them into Assets:Business Expenses
03:21:05 <PoniesVista> do you put subaccounts under there?
03:22:05 <warlord> Me personally? no.
03:22:20 <warlord> I suppose you could if you really wanted to keep track of what reimbursibles you spent.
03:23:29 <PoniesVista> the way I ended up doing it was assets:reimbursable:(company), then transfering from my individual expense accounts into that reimbursible acount, then into my bank account
03:23:55 <warlord> That works.
03:23:59 <PoniesVista> I need to split it up by food / gas / hotel at the very least. there _are_ tax implications iirc
03:24:08 <PoniesVista> but it messes up the statistics.
03:24:27 <PoniesVista> the day I transfer into reimbursible is way low and the other days are way high
03:25:47 <PoniesVista> and one other thing... your suggestion wouldnt' support the case wherein you're working for more than one company, or at least you have outstanding reimbursements with more than one company
03:26:10 <PoniesVista> so I like the reimbursement account for that... I can have subaccounts for copmanies
03:26:27 <warlord> sure.
03:26:56 <PoniesVista> i'm dismayed by the fact that I cannot see an elegant solution
03:31:51 <warlord> What statistics are you talking about?
03:31:56 <PoniesVista> btw jon stewart > *
03:32:09 <PoniesVista> expenditures vs. day of weekk
03:33:01 <PoniesVista> I suppose the big single day expenditures, etc, will be dilluted by normal activites
03:33:24 <warlord> Also, it's not really an expense if you know you're being reimbursed..
03:33:31 <warlord> BUt the Cash Flow report will tell you.
03:33:37 <warlord> ... how much you "spend"
03:33:58 <warlord> (although it will all get lumped into "reimbursibles")
03:34:56 <PoniesVista> ...I should take an accounting course...
03:36:38 <PoniesVista> would this sort of thing be covered in microeconomics?
03:37:10 <warlord> I have no idea.
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04:15:01 <PoniesVista> eh, there are accounting courses but the only one with a seat is at 7:45am. no thanks.
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04:30:21 <warlord> You could just go buy an accounting book and read it.
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