Reimbursed items, track cash flow

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I travel a lot for work and have a lot of reimbursed expenses (food, flights, hotels, etc.)

I find that my cash flow tracker on the monthly budget page (google sheets) is not affected by my travel expense reimbursement.

I have a category of “business expenses” that I use to track reimbursable expenses. I categorize both the expense & reimbursement using that category so it evens out, but the cash flow tracker does not take this into account because it is only calculating spending minus income.

I might be missing something here, but trying to figure out how to incorporate the reimbursement into my cash flow.

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You’ll want an “expense” type category and an “income” type category for business expenses to even out. It sounds like you’re using just one category that’s an expense type.

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For me, I just have one category and if it’s >0 I know I made money (usually per diem). While it might not show up on some reports, I know I can just run the Transaction Tracker or similar for that Category and see how close to $0 it is. At least that’s how I do it. If it’s two separate categories, then you would need to reconcile the two at some point.