Let's assume you have some kind of points which can be converted to
USD at 0.75 cents or converted to air miles 1:1.
If we do:
2010-01-01 open Assets:Test
2010-01-01 open Expenses:Whatever
2018-03-20 * "Use MR for purchase"
Expenses:Whatever 42.30 USD
Assets:Test -5641 MR @@ 42.30 USD
2018-03-21 * "Convert MR to miles"
Expenses:Whatever 1 KRISFLYER
Assets:Test -1 MR @@ 1 KRISFLYER
everything is fine.
However, let's be masochistic and track these MR points at a cost of
0.075 cents:
option "inferred_tolerance_default" "USD:0.01"
2010-01-01 open Assets:Test
2010-01-01 open Equity:Opening-Balance
2010-01-01 open Expenses:Whatever
2010-01-01 open Assets:Krisflyer
2018-03-20 * "MR is treated as a commodity"
Assets:Test 10000 MR {0.0075 USD}
Equity:Opening-Balance
2018-03-20 * "Use MR for purchase"
Assets:Test -5641 MR {0.0075 USD}
Expenses:Whatever 42.31 USD
2018-03-21 * "Convert MR to KrisFlyer"
Assets:Test -100 MR {0.0075 USD} @ 1 KRISFLYER
Assets:Krisflyer
Now:
bean-report d5 balances -e Assets:Krisflyer
Assets:Krisflyer 0.7500 USD
Why is this USD and not 100 KRISFYLER? Is there any way to convert
something with cost USD to some other commodity or do you always have
to convert to the cost commodity (i.e. USD here)?
It sort of makes sense because how else can the gain be calculated?
But ledger happily creates 100 KRISFYLER in the example above and
somehow this ought to be possible but I don't know how.
Maybe my transactions are not right because of my ledger-mindset
(i.e. I'm confusing costs and prices all the time) but how would
I do this?
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