QUOTE(wingdover @ Jan 5 2015, 02:21 PM)
I personally not prefer this way,
1. You are no in debt, so it's not proper to put in debt category. You actually did spent rm20 on food using your wallet or checking account or watever name, so put it RM20, make it simple.
2. One of the important concept of YNAB is to budget from what you CURRENTLY HAVE, the money you friend owe you is NOT what you CURRENTLY HAVE, to my understanding, it is to diminish the idea that you are going to have more money later ex. paycheck, fren return money, sales, etc, so that you wont overspent thinking you will have more anyway.
3. If you are very sure your fren will return money by this month, then set transactions as INCOME rm15 example in your wallet account, and set as UNCLEARED, once your friend give you, just set to CLEARED.
4. If you are not sure, maybe they will return the money next year, then dont bother fiddling with your budget and make it more confusing, just put a note at your food category(a small icon inside your category cell), xxx owe me rm15, done simple. If you did this while maintaining your current budget, once they return, it becomes an extra income and the feeling you get will be different from when you think they owe you.
Just my 2 cents, cheers and enjoy your budgeting.
QUOTE(cracksys @ Jan 5 2015, 03:56 PM)
+1
however, i find it easier for both tracking and clearing by creating an off-budget account for borrowings.
Well, I guess you don't have to call it debt. You can name it Reimbursement, or anything that makes sense to you.
But, having said that and after much fiddling with YNAB, I've also decided to go with an off-budget account to record who owes me what. That way, my budget is still deducting correct amount until everyone pays me.
I don't want to put the total amount paid into my budget because I usually pay first with my CC if I'm out with my friends. You can see just how much that would affect the budget that I've set for myself? The people I hang around with are good for it, they usually pay me the next day or within the week.
I'm still new to YNAB so I'm just gonna roll with this for now until I find a better way to do it.
Happy budgeting to you both too.