This is a general query…simple scenario
Pay 2000 personal drawings
… this shows as £2000 Staff Salaries - Total Expenses £2000
Pay £500 for example travel expenses out of personal drawing
…this now shows as £500 travel expenses + £2000 staff salaries - Total Expenses £2500
…surely that is not correct …as the £500 has been paid out of the £2000 ?
If you’re paying yourself or a partner drawings, it shouldn’t be tagged to salaries.
If you have paid travel expenses out of the £2000, you should either enter it £1500 to one nominal code and one to £500, or journal it.
If you’ve taken a drawing if £2000 and you’ve also incurred a travel expense of £500, if this expense is allowable then presumably you’d want the business to repay it at some point.
Also @Parker1090 is correct in that the staff salaries is not for recording drawings, this is for income received via your payroll. For drawings you’d just tag it as a transfer to the proprietor drawings account.