On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:41:28PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote:
> > You can account for the rounding error explicitly:
> >
> > 2014-11-01 * "Fund Swap"
> > Assets:Invest:VVUKEQ -13.0067 VVUKEQ {191.06
> GBP}
> > Assets:Invest:VVFUSI 16.6505 VVFUSI {149.25
> GBP}
> > Equity:Rounding -0.027 GBP
>
> this is more a general accounting question than a beancount-specific
> one, but is it more common to use Equity:* for rounding errors than
> appropriate Income/Expenses subcategories? What bothers me about using
> Equity is that then you won't see the "impact" of the rounding error
> when you just look at income/expenses over a given period of time (which
> I often do). But maybe I'm missing something about why Equity is better
> in these cases...
>
Nope. Just a choice.
One might argue that using Expenses or even Assets may be a better choice.
Beancount treats all accounts equally the same, irrespective of category,
so feel free to use whatever you want for this odd account, depending on
where you'd like to view those crumbs.
Cheers
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