2017-09-19 19:19:44 'Patrick Ruckstuhl' via Beancount <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Thank you very much, I got confused by this: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/ > 1dW2vIjaXVJAf9hr7GlZVe3fJOkM-MtlVjvCO1ZpNLmg/edit (Beancount - Comparison / > Differences) > which made me think that currency transactions should never use the cost > functionality. >
As Jason says, there's no need to record cost for currencies if you are
just "spending" them. In your case, you are "trading" USD for profits.
USD, in your case, if more of a stock held at cost to you.
> It looks like the average cost booking method has also been implemented in
> the mean time, so I can do it like this
> without having to bother about lots (which I don't care about)
>
> 2017-06-01 *
> Assets:CHF -30 CHF
> Assets:USD 20 USD { 1.5 CHF }
>
> 2017-07-01 price USD 1.7 CHF
>
> 2017-08-01 *
> Assets:USD -10 USD { * } @ 2 CHF
> Assets:CHF 40 CHF
> Income:USDTrading
>
>
Last time I checked, AVERAGE booking method is not implemented. Only
STRICT (default), FIFO, LIFO and NONE are available for now.
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