I paid a business expense from my personal card, how do I record it
This is normal in a small business and Talisk has a specific path for it, because the accounting isn't the same as a business-paid expense.
When you add the bill or receipt, mark that it was paid personally and pick who paid. What happens next depends on who that is:
- If you're a shareholder of an incorporated business, the expense is recorded and the amount is added to what the company owes you: your shareholder loan
- If it's someone else (a partner, an employee, a family member helping out), it becomes a reimbursement owed to that person
Either way the expense counts, and the cost lands in the right category, but the company's bank account was never touched, so it's never recorded as if it paid. That's the part people get wrong when they force it through as a normal bill.
When you pay the money back, record the repayment against that person's balance and it clears. You can see everyone you owe, and what for, in one place.
Answered by the Talisk HQ assistant, reviewed by us
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