On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 8:53 PM Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 11:16:14 PM UTC+7, Patrick Ruckstuhl wrote: >> >> Two things that I found necessary/helpful: >> > > Yeah, as I worked on this and thought about I realised it is pretty hard > to make something that is totally universal because of issues like the ones > you point out. > I gave this a shot in the past. I agree, not super obvious. There are some related ideas at the top of this file, this might be sufficient: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/experiments/returns/returns.py > > A posting can -- at least in theory, though in practice I think it is > probably uncommon -- refer to multiple securities, which then makes > attributing performance impossible without some way to disambiguate. > You mean "a transaction." > > Similarly, income like interest/dividends isn't explicitly attributed to a > security -- unless you go out of your way to make separate income accounts > for each security, which feels a bit over-the-top. In my personal beancount > files I set the payee to the name of the fund but you can't really rely on > other people following that convention. I suppose you could use metadata. > > -- > 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/2c5f1350-4aee-491d-ae2b-148ed56ec368%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2c5f1350-4aee-491d-ae2b-148ed56ec368%40googlegroups.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/CAK21%2BhPZ0%3D%3DY-gu4%3Dg8Bru99BgQRNqoKgzGv6wxEZE_7sPCe7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
