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July 29, 2022
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Accounts used for both income and expense

  • July 29, 2022
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We are a religious organization and use QuickBooks Premier Nonprofit Edition 2020. My problem is that we have several accounts where there is both income and expense. For example, congregants can donate to a Building fund. These donations will then be used to pay for repairs and maintenance of our building.

 

If we use 2 different QB accounts (income & expense) we can't see the net value. Another example is religious school income & expense. Parents pay "tuition" and there are expenses for supplies, etc. As above, we'd like to know the net amount. 

 

I know we can enter a negative value for an item in an income account but it doesn't seem appropriate. Any help would be appreciated.

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Rainflurry
July 29, 2022

@toladmin 

 

This sounds like the perfect use of using class tracking.  You can create a class for each program (building fund, missions, youth, etc.) and then assign the class to income and expense items for each.  Then, you can run a profit & loss report by class to see the change in net assets.