You can edit the transfer into the expense account and change the recipient to be the asset acct. You will get a warning that you are changing a reconciled transaction but it will not affect the reconcile (just make sure you don't change the amount transferred).
Colin On 29 June 2018 at 04:34, Tony Vanson <tonyvan...@gmail.com> wrote: > My thanks to all respondents. It is finally making sense to my befuddled > brain. > However I have one more spanner in the works. I had already transferred > funds from my Current Assets:Bank account to Expenses:Staff. > My Bank account has been reconciled. > What, if any, process is available to transfer the forward payment funds > from Expenses:Staff to the newly created Current Assets:Forward Payment > Credit account without messing things up, or would I need to delete the > original transfer and re-enter it to reflect the new process? > Thanks again for all your patience. > Cheers > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: > >> On 06/28/2018 12:25 AM, Tony Vanson wrote: >> > Thank you for your quick response. My Staff account is set up as an >> Expense >> > not as an Asset. In this particular case would I need to set up a new >> > account Current Assets:Staff - as a child account under Current Assets? >> > Cheers >> >> I would set it up as an asset. Even if you physically handed them the >> cash and they physically put it into their wallet for future >> disbursement as needed, it is still your asset. If anything is left >> over when you return it would come back to you for put back into the bank. >> >> I presume you will get periodic statements about how that asset is being >> disbursed so you can make the appropriate entries to transfer funds to >> the appropriate expense accounts (just like you do now, except the asset >> side is not the bank but the "staff accountant"). >> >> That way you could notice if the funds were running short and do online >> banking to send more funds to that person. >> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: >> > >> >> On Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:53:02 BST Tony Vanson wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >> >>> Hopefully someone can advise me how to treat the following problem >> which >> >>> stumps me. >> >>> I am using GNUcash 2.6.18 on Windows 10. >> >>> I shall be away for several months and have transferred credit from my >> >>> Savings account to my Staff account with a lump sum amount for her to >> pay >> >>> her Salary, Electricity, Pool chemicals, Internet access etc, on the >> due >> >>> date. All these are set up as expense accounts. >> >>> All accounts, apart from her Salary and Internet access, are variable >> in >> >>> amount and payment date. >> >>> I assume that I have to split the lump sum to the various accounts as >> >> they >> >>> are paid or is there some other method? >> >>> I also need to take into account that the payment I've made to the >> Staff >> >>> account may be too small or too large. >> >>> Any enlightenment to a personally perplexing problem would be greatly >> >>> appreciated. >> >>> P.S. I only use GNUcash for my personal information and does not have >> any >> >>> taxation or other legal requirement. >> >>> Cheers >> >> Hi Tony. >> >> >> >> Do you have accounts in GC that represent your Savings account & Staff >> >> accounts? >> >> >> >> To me it seems that you should let GC reflect reality - you've got a >> >> transaction from Assets:Savings to Assets:StaffAccount. as the payments >> >> are >> >> made, you have transactions between Assets:StaffAccount & expense >> accounts >> >> as >> >> appropriate. (presumably, you could be emailed details of payments made >> to >> >> keep your GC up to date?) >> >> >> >> If, on your return, you have balance left in Assets:StaffAccount, just >> >> record >> >> a transaction putting it back into savings. >> >> >> >> HTH, >> >> Maf. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > > > > -- > *Tony Vanson* > > *The older I get,* > *the better I was* > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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