Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I know a business with plenty of vendors who still offer 2/10 Net30 terms. (furniture industry) Since the 2% is deducted from the payment, the expense is directly reduced by a contra-account 'Discounts and Allowances'. I don't recall any cases where full payment had to be rendered and then t

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-18 Thread peterb
In the US, credit card rebates are best treated as a contra-expense account for rebates. In other jurisdictions, this might differ. -p On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:47 PM R. Victor Klassen wrote: > The OLD day? We still have a couple of vendors like that. Happily for us > accrual accounting is

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-15 Thread R. Victor Klassen
The OLD day? We still have a couple of vendors like that. Happily for us accrual accounting is their problem. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 15, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Michael or Penny Novack > wrote: > > Perhaps historical perspective might help, especially with businesses, > because might w

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
Perhaps historical perspective might help, especially with businesses, because might want to treat the same way as when invoices typically were like this, except conditional on when paid. I have no idea how accrual treats this (would have treated this) when in the old days a vendor might send

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Steve Butler
I also record as misc. non-taxed income. Thinking of titling a new income account as "Rebates". On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 05:34 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 re

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread paul
ia gnucash-user Sent: October 14, 2021 9:23 AM To: rsbrux Cc: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund 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

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Gyle McCollam
ubject: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund 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 am

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Dustin Henning
Because it is not considered taxable income in my jurisdiction, and because I only use the credit card due to the fact that I will get rewards (otherwise I would be a check or cash guy), I record it as a negative miscellaneous expense.  Outside of jurisdictions where this would be considered ta

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Steve Welch via gnucash-user
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 en

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Gerald
I also treat it as miscellaneous income, and account for it when received, as a welcome windfall. You COULD allocate it against the credit card expenditure, as negative expense, which would be more realistic, but I like seeing a windfall gain once a year and then treat myself accordingly. Note th

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
I also put it into a miscellaneous income. On 10/14/21 9:07 AM, Steve Welch via gnucash-user wrote: Because the rewards aren’t necessarily attributable to any one expense (or to split them out proportionately would be a whole lot of work), I always book them to miscellaneous income. I also in

Re: [GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread Steve Welch via gnucash-user
Because the rewards aren’t necessarily attributable to any one expense (or to split them out proportionately would be a whole lot of work), I always book them to miscellaneous income. I also include that income when I budget. Hope that helps, Steve Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 14, 2021, at

[GNC] Credit Card Rewards Refund

2021-10-14 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
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 pa