On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 05:47:32PM +0000, Jason Chu wrote: > Right now I have an account called Assets:US:SomeBank:HouseMaintenance because > I set aside money to pay for house things. > > I've since moved that money to another account and I want to repurpose that > account for saving for a car down payment. Now comes my fundamental question, > do I rename the account through my entire history to reflect the new purpose > or > do I create a "new" account that represents the new goal? > > What do other people do? >
I name accounts from vendors after some identifier provided by that vendor, say the last-4 of the account number. I then maintain what I call 'float' accounts with credit (negative) balances for claims against those assets (e.g.g, house maintenance.) This is, essentially, the idea behind a contra account. -A -- 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/20170208180640.GT26054%40c0redump.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
