Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
But what lies at the other end of mileage? eg drive 20km for visiting client & back, claim $0.50/km, means you write $10 mileage claim for today and deduct what account? You can use gnucash for tracking other things just as if they were money. In other words, you can have "virtual" sets of

Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread David Cousens
Christopher, When I used to have to do this, I created sub-accounts for expenses which could be claimed against tax and expenses which were personal but not tax deducible. My calculations were all external to my accounting using spreadsheets. E.g when a utility bill came in I would apportion

Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread David Carlson
To Adrien's point, there are many cases where the expenses are covered by other accounts such as fuel and maintenance for vehicles, but I was addressing the cases where certain expenses have a different tax bucket than the norm or possibly even off-the-books such as personal car used for business,

Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread Christopher Lam
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 15:53, Rich Shepard wrote: > What I do for non-cash donations (to Goodwill, for example) is enter the > value in an expense account called 'Donations - non-cash'. You could have > expense accounts for milage and volunteer time if appropriate. (I have run > my consultancy

Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I could be misunderstanding, but I think the question is about tracking deductions for expenses that are already accounted for. I don’t see it as cash vs. non-cash. (such as in-kind) For example, you have personal auto expenses that may or may not be broken out into R, Fuel, etc. Those are

Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Christopher Lam wrote: This question is for the resident accountants and bookkeeping. Christopher, Check with your accountant for their preferences and local requirements. But there are numerous tax deductions allowed, that don't necessarily belong in the book. For

Re: [GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread David Carlson
This is definitely not " a method to record this data safely (i.e. satisfies the accounting equation...) in the datafile, suitable for audit?" but a trick that I have used for years is to create special accounts under a placeholder I call _Non-Cash Expenses for _Mileage-Medical and

[GNC] About bookkeeping and claiming non-currency expenses.

2020-04-17 Thread Christopher Lam
This question is for the resident accountants and bookkeeping. As we know if our book has *complete and* *perfect* information, the reports make accountant very happy. But there are numerous tax deductions allowed, that don't necessarily belong in the book. For example: - claiming mileage in