Am 09.05.19 um 08:44 schrieb John Mee:> Perhaps this is an issue of fava, I'm sure you'll redirect me if so... my problem is that fava's balance sheet shows assets as positive values and equity as negative (which is also odd, imho both sides should be positive values?) thence the income Statement shows income as negative and expenses as positives. > > I started mucking around with code to try and flip all my beancount text file entries from positives to negatives but, given that is "work, (eg: got so far as to be searching for routine in beancount.data that outputs Transaction instance as beancount text?), that now I'm reconsidering my approach. Even if I do flip it all successfully my balance sheet will show assets as negatives, equity as positives, income as positive and expenses as negative: better but still not "right" imho (please correct me as appropriate). > > Ultimately I (think I) would like fava's income statement to list income in positive values; expenses can be either positive or negative I don't particularly care, but it would be nice if both sides of the balance sheet were positive although I can live with whatever I get on that. > > (First) Question is perhaps: Should I proceed to invert every entry in beancount, or focus on "fixing" fava? Hello,
if I understand you correctly, that's the way double-entry accounting works. You receive X money: Your employer pays to your checkings account: Income -> Assets. Since money is moved from Income to Assets, now your income is negative X and your Assets is postive X. Same with Equity. Equity is an account for something you already have. It's also used for Opening Balances. In order to start an Asset account you need to fill it with money at the point in time you decide to start accounting. For that, you book that amount from Equity:Opening-Balances (which goes negative then) to Assets (which goes positive by the same amount). Now, if you something, you book the money from Assets to Expenses, resulting in a negative change in Assets and a positive change in Expenses. Hope that helped a bit, Best, Florian -- 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/11f15495-549e-49cc-a6b2-e1c44eb72ecf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
