accrued expenses

[Alexandre Perali]

Hi Gary

Why not use a liability account for this?



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> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:08:00 +0200
> From: Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
> To: kmymoney at kde.org
> Subject: accrued expenses
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> Sometimes we pay a bill for a service to be performed in a future month,
> eg, airline tickets.  Say we pay for an airline ticket in December and use
> it in May.  We want the expense to show up in the month of May.  So we
> created an account called Payables and Receivables (P and R).  We show the
> credit card payment as a transfer to the P&R account and create a
> corresponding line item in the PR account with the apprpriate category and
> the date we want the expense to appear.
>
> We use a Report by Payee to reconcile the R&P account - the balance for
> each Payee should always be zero, and the total balance should always be
> zero..  Sometimes it is not.  The problem is that when I run a report by
> payee, the payee names for line items representing transfers do not appear,
> making it impossible for me to figure out where the error is in the P&R
> account.
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> Is there another way I should use to reconcile the R&P account??
>
> thanks
>
>
> gary
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