First of all, thank you for this excellent project. I have a retirement account to which my company and myself contribute with every paycheck. There is little control over investments in this account. One can choose a generic asset allocation from a pre-defined list, and contributions are automatically invested. There are no shares or prices, only a balance that fluctuates due to contributions and investment profit and loss.
Due to the lack of transparency in this account I'm not quite sure how to track it. A naive way might be to track the balance of the account using its base currency, adjusting the balance according to periodic statements: 2017-01-01 open Assets:Bank:Checking USD 2017-01-01 open Assets:Bank:IRA USD 2017-01-01 open Income:Bank:IRA:PnL USD 2017-01-01 open Income:Company:Salary USD 2017-01-01 open Income:Company:IRA USD 2017-01-01 * "Payroll" Assets:Bank:Checking 900.00 USD Income:Company:Salary -900.00 USD Assets:Bank:IRA 100.00 USD Income:Company:IRA -100.00 USD ; Adjust IRA balance according to quarterly statement 2017-03-31 pad Assets:Bank:IRA Income:Bank:IRA:PnL 2017-04-01 balance Assets:Bank:IRA 110.00 USD As far as I can tell this method would be sufficient for my current needs (tracking the account's balance, profit and loss). However, I wonder if there's a better way to track this sort of account? -- 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/e0f87cf7-8ad0-445d-ac45-c69606e40eed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
