I’d like to get started using beancount for personal finance, and have started on the tutorial, etc. I have some practical, (mostly) non-technical questions that I haven’t found answers to. For example:
- Do I need to create all my accounts from the start? They’re all connected, of course — bank account pays credit-card bill and mortgage, checking account funds savings, etc. if I don’t create them all at once, how do I create those connections as I go? Eg, how can I “pay” a credit-card bill before I’ve set up the credit card account? - How much history does it make sense to create at the beginning? I would have to import bank and card data (no Quicken file or equivalent). I see there’s a way of starting an account, padding it to the present and then going back to add historical transactions from some arbitrary point before I started recording transactions but after the account-open date. Does it make more sense to start with the present or a month back/several months/beginning of the year? - What’s the best way to get up to speed on importing csv or Quicken-type files downloaded from a bank? I assume there may be some amount of scripting available (I can manage that much python). So far I’ve hand coded my most recent transactions from my checking account, just to get a feel for what’s involved, but I don’t want to keep doing that for long. Thanks! -- 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/b67a08b4-b720-4b7b-9a3b-563c026109b6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
