How to record interest earned on a GST refund

We record our GST reporting by General Journal. The GST refund remit has been recorded for the month. I have now received the deposit to the bank, however the NOA received shows interest earned on the GST refund. I want to now receive the refund in Sage 50, but the refund is for more than the original GJ. How best to record this interest earned?

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    Typically you would not record a refund to the bank directly when you are reporting and posting the remittance as it has not been received yet (and won't be for a while unless you normally get refunds).  I would post it to a clearing account assuming I was using the general journal.  However, because we don't know how you have already entered it, I can't say for sure if you should change it or add another entry.

    Typically you would add a line to your general journal entry to record the revenue to the Interest Earned account (or account of a similar name) as you move the refund amount from a clearing account to the bank once it is received.

    One other option would be to post the difference only and do the math on the bank rec if you didn't use a clearing account.

  • 0 in reply to Richard S. Ridings

    Thanks! adding a line in the GJ was what was needed