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Buy nowIn QuickBooks Desktop, I've put credit card rebates in an income account, but then they are on the nonprofit Statement of Financial Income and Expense (P&L statement). I'd rather use a contra account as a subaccount of the credit card account because it's really not income. I tried setting up such an account, but using the Credit Card refund form, I got unwanted offsetting entries. Short of making a journal entry, what am I doing wrong?
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The issue is that you're trying to make the rebate a sub-account of the cc liability account. That creates both a cc debit (reduction in cc liability, which you want) and a cc contra sub-account credit (offsetting increase in liability, which you don't want). Rebates are considered a contra-expense account, not a contra-liability account. They will, and should, reduce expenses on your P&L (NFP Statement of Activities). CC rebates are technically not considered part of gross income, but they do increase net income because they reduce expenses.
The issue is that you're trying to make the rebate a sub-account of the cc liability account. That creates both a cc debit (reduction in cc liability, which you want) and a cc contra sub-account credit (offsetting increase in liability, which you don't want). Rebates are considered a contra-expense account, not a contra-liability account. They will, and should, reduce expenses on your P&L (NFP Statement of Activities). CC rebates are technically not considered part of gross income, but they do increase net income because they reduce expenses.
Thank you for suggesting the use a contra expense account. Because I'm required to use functional expenses, I'm allocating 2/3 to programs and 1/3 to management.
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