Hi,
I'm new to beancount and currently assessing whether I can switch from
ledger-cli in order to make use of the web interface fava.
I'm interested in ways on how to split expenses in beancount: I share a
household with my partner and for many expenses I'd like to register only
half the debit as a personal expense whereas the other half should be
registered as an asset (something that my partner owes me).
I currently use ledger-cli and make heavy of the following automatic
transaction to split transactions with my partner:
= tag("With") =~ "Susa"
$account -0.5
Assets:Receivable:Susa 0.5
Shared expenses are then recorded like this:
2019/05/22 * Bakery
Expenses:Food 10.00 EUR ; With: Susa
Assets:Cash
This results in a credit of 5.00 EUR to Expenses:Food and
Assets:Receivable:Susa each. I find this quite comfortable and want to know
if there is something similar in beancount. (I've already learned that
there are no automatic transactions in beancount)
I skimmed the documentation of beancount for sharing expenses and what I
found <http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/shared> seems to involve "special"
accounts (e.g. Expenses:Food:Fred & Expenses:Food:Susa) in order to split
transactions using a plugin ("beancount.plugins.split_expenses") -- is this
correct?
Does the mentioned plugin work in way like the automatic transaction in
ledger-cli does, i.e. does running beancount automatically split the
written amount in the journal file or does the workflow involve running a
command that results in hard-coded input text that replaces the original
input data?
More generally: How do beancount users normally record regular shared
expenses?
Thanks and regards,
Fred
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