I got like 4 real life saving account (I'm chasing interest promo ;) ) at different bank so i apply this model for each of them.
Jacques Gagnon GTalk/E-Mail: [email protected] WLM (MSN): [email protected] On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Jacques Gagnon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ms >> gid/beancount/CAFFHUgv3cUmtYTHFxCFm5%2BoX%2BSmuSRVWdQM5ATMbb >> ZoEk70f2A%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/CAPgTVrYfmvc1rraqcARYQAAj_HbBeg8NmDAvPmj4CBddGW%2BObw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
