On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Metin Akat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Is there some plugin to ease me with generation of depreciation > transactions? > For every more substantial thing I own I create its own account where I > depreciate it over time by manually entering monthly transactions for > depreciation. As you can imagine, this is very tedious. > > I wrote something similar, except instead of writing a desired final balance you have to enter amount of depreciation over the time period you want. I use it primarily for things like insurance premiums that are paid annually or every six months so that my expenses are spread out evenly over the year, but also use it to record depreciation on my cars. The plugin is by no means perfect (it assumes everything is monthly), but it might work for you. Here it is: https://gist.github.com/cdjk/0b8da9e2cc2dee5f3887ab5160970faa And here's what an example file using the plugin looks like: plugin "amortize_over" 2017-06-01 open Assets:Bank:Checking 2017-06-01 open Assets:Prepaid-Expenses 2017-06-01 open Expenses:Insurance:Auto 2017-06-01 * "Pay car insurance" Assets:Bank:Checking -600.00 USD Assets:Prepaid-Expenses 2017-06-01 * "Amortize car insurance over six months" amortize_months: 6 Assets:Prepaid-Expenses -600.00 USD Expenses:Insurance:Auto For depreciation, I do something like this, if I think my car will be worth 12k less in three years: 2017-01-01 * "Car Depreciation" amortize_months: 36 Expenses:Depreciation:Car 12,000.00 USD Assets:Auto:Car -- 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/CAN3-EDXm-0M-WHKGy6n-Jd%3DKDz3Jz5izsqdOd4ExY0RD7v_7pQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
