Disclaimer: I'm not an expert with this and may be wrong
In your case I understand that you don't want to keep cost basis in
expenses accounts. What I would do is sell BTC at a cost and keep it
without cost in Expenses. This is minimal beancount file that shows it:
plugin "beancount.plugins.auto_accounts"
2018-08-07 * "Buy BTC"
Income:Salary -20 USD
Assets:Bitcoin 2 BTC {10 USD}
2019-08-07 * "Buy Pizza"
Assets:Bitcoin -1 BTC {10 USD}
Expenses:Pizza 1 BTC @ 20 USD
Income:Gains -10 USD
If you wanted to keep cost basis in the other account:
I think this topic was raised earlier this year. You can search for
"Moving assets with cost basis" in the mailing list to see a solution.
The short answer is that when you do the transfer you have to put cost
basis explicitly inside {} (even if there is only one lot)
On 29/09/2019 17:11, Dennis Golomazov wrote:
And if I add the cost manually, it shows a "Transaction does not
balance" error.
On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 6:07:09 PM UTC+3, Dennis Golomazov
wrote:
Hi,
I have a question. Imagine you buy bitcoins, so they are held at
cost.
Then later you use them to buy something (so they go to Expenses:
subaccount nominated in bitcoins).
How do you record that transaction? Ideally I want the
gains/losses to be realized.
But If I do something like:
2013-06-01 * "Buy pizza"
Assets:Cryptocurrency:Coinbase:Bitcoin -10000 BTC {}
Expenses:Pizza 10000 BTC
beancount shows an error "No position matches...".
I assume that's because BTC were bought with USD, but now are
"sold" to BTC and not back to USD?
This works:
2013-06-01 * "Buy pizza"
Assets:Cryptocurrency:Coinbase:Bitcoin -10000 BTC {}
Expenses:Pizza 100 USD
the cost gets imputed correctly. But the thing is that pizza might
haven't had a price in USD, it was nominated in bitcoins :)
What's the best way to handle these situations?
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