Expenses paid with external account

[Travis]

So I have a Beancount file for shared expenses and we add a specific amount each month. Sometimes one of us has to pay for something with their own creditcard/cash. These are shared expenses, that I would like to book in our shared ledger. I do not care who paid it (let's assume we split the cost externally), but I don't want to track these accounts. Is it possible to track these expenses, without calculating the extra money as income?

My goal is that the profit graphs correctly represent our expenses without inflating the income.  Does this even make sense from an accounting perspective?

Could I use an equity account for this? How do you solve this?

[Red S]

An example ledger would help.

[jiti...@gmail.com]

I think an equity account is of good use for this:

For example, 

      2017-01-01  *  "Group Dinner"

           Expenses:Food  -100 USD

           Equity:GroupContributions

This way the expenses get accounted towards your food purchases in your ledger. And if you ever wanted to find out how much the group as a whole has spent on all of these expenses in total, you could use the Equity:GroupContributions account for that.

Regards,

Jitin