On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:29:03PM +0300, Aamer Abbas wrote: > I don't want to speak on his behalf, but I think his concern is a bit > different. In your example, I think he wants his checking balance to > reflect that he has $1000 less than the actual amount. Because at any > moment, that check could be cashed and he needs to ensure he is setting it > aside so that money is not spent (and also I guess he wants to recognize it > that way for tax purposes).
Right. I didn't mention it explicitly in my previous post, but I do face that very same problem for my personal finances: I've a bank account and I want to make sure that the amount of known outstanding payments that might hit it cannot make it go red. (In my cases those payments include not a lot of cheques, but a potentially substantial monthly credit card bill.) > Your example does certainly make that possible, but it requires you to do > two queries and then subtract Liabilities:Payable from Assets:Checking. ... and that is precisely what I do. I have Beancount canned queries that takes into account the relevant accounts (unintended pun :-)) and show me the total. If it's below 0, I should better move money from savings accounts back to that checking account. (Arguably, those queries could be simplified if we had tags/metadata on accounts and the ability to filter accounts based on those, rather than only string matching. But that is a separate topic, which IIRC we have discussed in the past on this list.) Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- 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/20190417133923.4wzxa6hecmpqryug%40upsilon.cc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
