I use fava's "budget". So for example I have these:- 2017-01-01 custom "budget" Expenses:Automobile:Petrol "yearly" 5000 MYR 2018-01-01 custom "budget" Expenses:Automobile:Petrol "yearly" 7000 MYR 2019-01-01 custom "budget" Expenses:Automobile:Petrol "yearly" 6000 MYR
Which allows me to set my annual petrol budget. This reflects in fava's view (and auto-splits to monthly if I'm selecting a monthly view). Only useful if you're using fava though, sorry about that. On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:57 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at Beancount to get a better grasp of my expenses. A vital > part of that are regular expenses, things like income, monthly rent, yearly > insurance fees, or semesterly university fees. I'm surprised to find no > documentation on how to manage such regular expenses with Beancount. I've > searched the documentation, this group, and the web, but the closest thing > I've found is the forecast plugin which marks itself as experimental and > seems minimal. > Instead, I'm under the impression that I'm supposed not to project these > costs into the future, but to just keep track of the actual transactions > that have occurred in the past. However, this feels insufficient to me, > since it seems important to know how much money I will have left next month > to spend on running costs. > > Therefore I would love some feedback on how you handle recurring expenses > with Beancount and whether it's the right tool for what I'm looking for? > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/41a38017-522b-4e50-b3ec-fd7bacc23cb1%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/41a38017-522b-4e50-b3ec-fd7bacc23cb1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAGQ70eshNZkWYY0ud8rzDRS38VBaUsQcBXqdeU7v6Rdwt5qocg%40mail.gmail.com.
