I use subsections. My file looks something like this: # Options # Commodities # Equity Accounts # Assets # Canada Banking ## Institution1 ### Account1 ### Account2 ## Institution2 ### Account3 # US Banking ... # Investing ... # Liabilities ## Account4 ## Account5 # Expenses # Employment # Income # Prices
I should probably move around some sections, but it's nice to have the hierarchy. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:15 PM Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2018-04-10 18:46]: > > Also i have several different sources of income so they also should be > > split as well? > > * Income 1 > > * Income 2 > > * Income 3 > > It depends and is a personal choice. > > I only split based on the income type, e.g. > > Income:Employment:Salary > Income:Employment:Bonus > Income:Gifts > > If I had 2 employers, I would not put this into the account name. > I would use tags: > > 2018-04-11 * Salary from company A #companyA > Assets:Checking:Chase 1000.00 USD > Income:Employment:Salary -1000.00 USD > > 2018-04-12 * Salary from company B #companyB > Assets:Checking:Chase 1000.00 USD > Income:Employment:Salary -1000.00 USD > > However, other people would do it differently. For example, Martin > Blais would probably add the employer name to the name of the income > account. > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > > -- > 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/20180411191537.iiw62xridcbwrysc%40jirafa.cyrius.com > . > 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/CAFFHUgt3r%3DkXyC%3DYFYO4h9LDE%3DOzbNazsX6-r2z9n0feSiwdew%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
