How should you enter an expense for repairs when there will be an insurance reimbursement?

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I think these are two different transactions:

1. you receive invoice and pay for it

2. you invoice insurance and they pay

@Leslie_GoodCentsBookkeeping 

If the amount is material, record the expenses under 'Other Expenses' (or a sub-account of other expenses if appropriate) and the insurance proceeds as an 'Other Income' account (gain from insurance claim or something similar).  You want to keep this off of the company's income from operations portion of the P&L (other income and expense show up below), unless the amounts are immaterial to the company, in which case, it is acceptable to include them in the operations portion of the P&L.