i'm trying to understand german (SKR03) bookkeeping and, tag yourself??
ah yes, the four types of bank accounts:

1. Postbank
2. Bundesbank regional office
3. Central bank
4. Bank (other)
@embr wouldn't Bundesbank go in Central bank, only the regional sub-banks of the Bundesbank go in F1190
@q ah, I thought that seemed redundant
@embr @embr strange ICD codes
@embr bookkeeping is kind of a hobby of mine (and I am a bookkeeping nerd) - so if you have any question hmu

@jascha ooh, that’d actually be really helpful, because I’m trying to figure out how to account for: “I booked a hotel room or train tickets for myself and someone else, then invoiced them for half the cost”

(this is usually me and another self-employed friend going to a conference together; both of us are business expensing it)

@embr you book the whole costs on 4660 (you do not need to differ between employed and own costs) and invoice with the appropriate VAT on 8300/8409
@jascha ah, okay! also, what would I do with bank fees/transaction fees/cashback type things?
@jascha and uhh, I can find codes for donating to others, but what about receiving donations? (in this case, research grants)
@embr @embr depends - if they are with or without VAT
@embr and they are not codes but account numbers. That is an important distinction 😇
@embr and totally unrelated: why double-entry bookkeeping? Mist freelancers don’t need todo that except have a turnover of more than 800.000 or a a profit of 80K or higher…
@jascha well, I do finance stuff and learned accounting from working at a bank, where obviously you do want to use double entry, so now anything else just feels wrong

but also, I worked on payment processing and moving customer money around, so that's a very different chart of accounts - you're dealing in customer balances, authorization holds, scheme clearing accounts, etc. ^^
@embr Bank fees/cashback - 4970