One further thought: treating rewards as a negative expense will mask the true cost of whatever was purchased. If you stop using your rewards card, suddenly your apparent expenses will go up.
Both professionally and personally I generally prefer to not muddy expense accounts with negative entries unless it really makes sense. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 14, 2021, at 8:34 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > I have a credit card which, like a few others, accrues a small percentage > (1-2%) of the amounts spent as a rebate. The rebate isn't subtracted from > each charge, but accumulates in the card account as "Reward Points" until I > cash them in. The amount is then credited to the card account as a payment. > Should such payments be recorded as income or as a negative expense? > > _______________________________________________ > 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. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
