+1 On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:54 PM Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, November 29, 2019 at 7:01:27 AM UTC+7, nugget wrote: >> >> What would be the clean way of balancing both accounts other than hardcoding >> a transaction and changing it everytime some historic transactions pops up? > > > I would suggest not to use nested accounts like you have in your example. > Don't put transactions in Assets:Parent. In the real world, banks and > brokerages generally don't allow accounts to work like in your example. > There's a beancount plugin called "leafonly" -- > https://aumayr.github.io/beancount-docs-static/api_reference/beancount.plugins.html#module-beancount.plugins.leafonly > -- which is how most accounts should be structured, with only rare > exceptions. > > In any case, dealing with "historic transactions that pop up" is always going > to cause problems with balance statements. The solution is to not have > historic transactions popping up -- don't write balance statements when you > have unknown(?!) outstanding transactions -- or accept that you will need to > rewrite your beancount history & transactions. That pad does that > automagically for you is not a good thing IMHO. > > I think that pad statements should be used very sparingly. They are > convenient but a little too magical. You get 99% of the benefit, with no > confusion, by simply writing the equivalent pad transaction yourself and > making it explicit. > > -- > 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/1cc1b693-e310-4e64-8953-28c9f169dcdf%40googlegroups.com.
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