I your situation close old account and open a new one? I dont like rewriting history in my journal personally.
What I do personally is I got one Saving account in real life and manage some "virtual" account under that parent in beancount. And my balance assertion are always towards the real parent account. * Assets:Bank:Saving 2017-01-01 open Income:Interest:Saving CAD 2017-01-01 open Assets:Bank:Saving CAD 2017-01-01 open Assets:Bank:Saving:Payments CAD 2017-01-01 open Assets:Bank::Saving:Projects CAD 2017-02-01 balance Assets:Bank:Alterna:Saving 0.00 CAD Payments is money I save for yearly payments, like house taxes, car resgistration, insurance, license, etc.. And projects is money I save for short/mid term expenses. In your case you could add sub account for projects if you want more detail of what the money was for then close once your are done. Jacques Gagnon GTalk/E-Mail: [email protected] WLM (MSN): [email protected] On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Jason Chu <[email protected]> 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? > > -- > 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/CAFFHUgv3cUmtYTHFxCFm5%2BoX%2BSmuSRVWdQM5ATMbbZoEk70f2A% > 40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFFHUgv3cUmtYTHFxCFm5%2BoX%2BSmuSRVWdQM5ATMbbZoEk70f2A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAPgTVrbj5ZKuBZn%2BobKqTruk0c4%3Dv62FkRt7gG%2BfGjQJhdDmxQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
