Hi Martin, I understand that generally balance assertions are relevant only for balance sheet accounts. However, I have a use case to use them on Income and Expense accounts, and I wonder what your advice would be on going about writing these assertions.
I'd like to assert that, say, between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 2015, the "balance" in Income:Interest is XX. I have declared this amount in my tax return and would therefore like an assertion to prevent this amount changing "accidentally" in the future. The other purpose of doing this is to help with reconciliation at the end of the year. Example: a broker sends me what it's record of Income:ShortTermGains is, and I'd like to make sure my entries of the gains add up to the same value. I see a couple of ways of doing it: 1. Writing assertions of actual balances rather than the "this years balance". Easiest to do, but makes the entries hard to read. 2. Writing a plugin that adds entries for each year and matches against given targets. Is there a simpler way? Or an alternative approach to handle the use case? Thanks Alok -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/010bc7ff-fa41-4720-8524-f40badd2f791%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
