Hi, I've been using this plugin for over a month. It's perfect for my needs. I already converted all of my properties, past and present, to this way of tracking.
Thanks! Metin On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Metin Akat <[email protected]> wrote: > One small bug: > > The import statement on line 27 does not work. Instead it should be: > from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Metin Akat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow, this seems to be exactly what I need. >> Thank you! I'll try it and will report back. >> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Cary Kempston <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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/ms >>> gid/beancount/CAN3-EDXm-0M-WHKGy6n-Jd%3DKDz3Jz5izsqdOd4ExY0R >>> D7v_7pQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAN3-EDXm-0M-WHKGy6n-Jd%3DKDz3Jz5izsqdOd4ExY0RD7v_7pQ%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/CAEk80bnP8oy1Z756hPhXp1Xde%2B%2BSMHEZQ4x6r_Jh6uLpOy5RSQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
