Keep the business and the owner separate.
Each account is assigned to an entity as you connect it, and every transaction carries its own scope on top of that. The client dinner on a personal card books to the company without dragging household spending with it. Business spend that is really personal gets flagged and reclassified as an owner draw or a reimbursement rather than booked as a business cost — which is the difference between books that survive a review and books that do not.
- Scope lives on the transaction, not only on the account
- Commingled spend flagged, then reclassified as a draw or a reimbursement
- Every total reads three ways: business, owner, consolidated
Home Depot
Oct 2 · Business checking
-318.47businessCostco
Oct 2 · Personal credit
-241.09personalAdobe Creative Cloud
Oct 1 · Personal credit
-59.99businessRe-scoped to business · rule saved for this merchant
Client retainer · Northwind
Sep 30 · Business checking
+4,500.00business




