Yes, IMO this is a much better workflow, as it actually allows you to track something at all :). Otherwise, why do we bother do do our own, personal accounting.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Zhuoyun Wei <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would recommend this: > > 1. Make a transfer from Assets:Bank to Assets:Cash every time you > withdraw from ATM; > 2. Count your money in you wallet from time to time (say, monthly) and > use "balance" directive to assert how many money in your wallet; > 3. Insert a "pad" directive one day before the "balance" directive to > automatically generate a transfer from your wallet to your designated > account (e.g. Expenses:RandomStuff) to make the next balance assertion > pass. > > I use the similar procedure for a bank investment account which accrues > interest every day. But I don't want to duplicate every interest income > in that account because there are no script-friendly way to export data > from that bank. So I just assert the balance monthly and pad the > difference to "Income:Interest" or something like that. > > > 2018-04-02 21:26:12 Mattijs Hoitink <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > In my ledger I have an asset account for cash set up, used for when I > withdraw from an ATM machine for example. However > > I do not keep track of what I spent that money on exactly, I just assume > that when it enters the account (my wallet) it > > is spent (from a ledger perspective). > > > > I'm not interested in keeping track of what I spent it on (I might give > some to my wife etc) so I'm looking for ways to > > reset the asset account to empty, otherwise it keeps accumulating. Does > anyone have any recommendations for doing this, > > or a particular process? > > > > Any ideas are welcome! > > > > cheers, > > mattijs > > > > -- > > 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/ > > 1f644a87-adf7-4b2e-b098-b06b46de6077%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Zhuoyun Wei > > -- > 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/20180403070625.GA17161%40herus.wzyboy.org. > 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/CAEk80bk0vOsz1Zn3Bg80_PNMF3KUtD8F2FcSCOdRkt%2BKWj0QTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
