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lhbc-donate
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Interest on Investment

Post by lhbc-donate »

Our investment interest is automatically reinvested. In the past I have gone through contributions to Debit investment on our balance sheet and credit income on the inc/exp statement. Is this correct? ... Carey

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Post by JohnDMeyers »

I think you are correct.

If you have an investment asset account with $10,000 and you reinvested $400 interest, then you want to show income of $400 and an asset of $10,400, which is what you are doing.

If you were not reinvesting the income, you would need an investment asset account and a "cash asset" account

Your income would be $400

Your investment asset would be $10,000
and your "cash asset" account would be $400

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