Looks right to me. Basically you define a ledger with a set of accounts that belong to the project (not any individual). When people chip in money, that's income. The project has asset accounts. When money is spent, that's going to expenses. In the end you can sum up the income for each member and you'll know how much was chipped in.
In the case that the expenses aren't shared equally (e.g. you want to account for every person's expenses) you expenses account should be divided per person. There's a plugin to automatically split up the expenses equally for expenses account by default: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/beancount/plugins/split_expenses.py It ignores accounts with the names of any of the participants so you can still account for exceptions manually. See these docs for more info https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRcJqUfeAMQO6KjG94w6rF7VajMGJaFplmF1Wu0rCHY/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MjSpGoJVdgyg8rhKD9otSKo4iSD2VkSYELMWDBbsBiU/ Have fun, On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 5:22 PM Uwe Ziegenhagen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, I'd like to get your opinion on the following example of trying to > manage a cash-only piggy bank among colleagues. Let's assume that everyone > agreed to pay 5 Euro into the piggy bank. > > Based on this information I book the accounts receivable, here it's called > "Vermögen:Forderungen" > > Once the money is paid, "Vermögen:Forderungen" is decreased in favor of > "Vermoegen:Barkasse", the cash-only piggy bank. Once in a while money is > taken out e.g. to pay for flowers, so "Vermoegen:Barkasse" is decreased, > expenses for flowers "Ausgaben:Blumengeld" is increased. > > Is this feasible or am I missing something? my bookkeeping lecture was quite > a while ago... > > Uwe > > option "name_assets" "Vermoegen" > option "name_liabilities" "Verbindlichkeiten" > option "name_income" "Einkommen" > option "name_expenses""Ausgaben" > option "name_equity" "Eigenkapital" > > 2019-01-01 open Vermoegen:Forderungen EUR > 2019-01-01 open Vermoegen:Barkasse EUR > 2019-01-01 open Ausgaben:Blumengeld EUR > 2019-01-01 open Einkommen:Blumengeld EUR > > 2019-10-01 * "Martina Mustermann" > Vermoegen:Forderungen 5.00 EUR > Einkommen:Blumengeld -5.00 EUR > > 2019-10-01 * "John Doe" > Vermoegen:Forderungen 5.00 EUR > Einkommen:Blumengeld -5.00 EUR > > 2019-10-03 * "Martina Mustermann" > Vermoegen:Barkasse 5.00 EUR > Vermoegen:Forderungen -5.00 EUR > > 2019-10-05 * "Blumen für Max" > Ausgaben:Blumengeld 2 EUR > Vermoegen:Barkasse -2 EUR > > > > -- > 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/1b1d30bd-a40f-4134-a58e-9a6350b1ed15%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/CAK21%2BhMqu-vRXOoNh5cbm%3DUKcnKaVxvvzHOf_Diqy%3D8J5SS%3Dzw%40mail.gmail.com.
