YNAB You Need A Budget

[sbynabber]

I am using YNAB for our family budget only. I am not interested using YNAB for my business - we already have accounting and budgeting software for the business and YNAB is not suited for my business.

I have a unique situation in that we are able to expense many of our personal items to the business including entertainment, meals, babysitter, auto expenses, health premiums, prescriptions, etc. We would still like to track these "personal" expenses on our YNAB budget, but since the money is coming out of a business pot of money which is not being tracked on YNAB - how best handle this?

[olafmoriarty]

If it were me, I'd enter it in the register as a split transaction with a total of zero. For example, if you get a $ 100 meal from your business, enter a split transaction with $ 100 inflow as Income available this month and $ 100 outflow in the Restaurants or whateveryoucallit category.

[Joel]

If your business account always pays for certain categories, then I would likely not track those categories.

However, if you want to track those categories... I would do it like olafmoriarty suggested.

[sbynabber]

ah good idea Olaf. Thank you.