Thanks for the prompt reply. On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 9:51:30 AM UTC+10, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > First thing to note is that it's fairly trivial to convert account names > (assuming you're handy with your editor, regex, sed, or any other string > processing method). > This brings another interesting question. Are there any tools available that can manipulate ledger files on a higher level? Regex search and replace is sufficient in this case, but I would like to perform more complex file transformations in the future.
> Using 'Institution' as the main group means you have an overview > amount/transaction list per institution. So you know how much 'business' > you do with a particular BankA, and how much of your net worth currently > resides in that bank. In my country, for example, automatic government > insurance on deposited amount is per-institution, so I can immediately see > if my total deposits in various types of accounts is close to that limit > (at which point moving some funds to another institution makes sense). > We also have limited government insurance. This is why I choose Institution grouping for Asset accounts but I wasn't able to find strong reasons to use the same grouping for Income accounts. It looks like it is a matter of personal preference. > Of course, a quick query can 'solve' both of the above, whatever your > structure. So no, it doesn't really matter much at the end of the day. I > prefer the recommended way because I use fava exclusively and it displays > nicely there without me having to write a query. > I tried fava and it looks great. Now I am wondering how one can switch between rendering income by institution (banks) and by type (i.e. interest) writing queries in fava. It is easy to do with bean-web since I can select components (either institution name or income type) on the main page and then navigate to Income Statement page. > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 4:28 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I started to use Beancount some time ago without reading entire >> documentation. Thus, I have Income accounts grouped by income type. E.g. >> >> Income:Interest:MyBank:Savings >> Income:Interest:AnotherBank:Savings >> >> But I have found that Beancount doc recommends grouping Income accounts >> by institution. >> >> What advantages does this approach have? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/96a2303f-c5ef-44bc-bbd3-77d3cfc255cb%40googlegroups.com >> . >> 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/77b7bb37-d7d9-4922-a828-8f91f9848c73%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
