On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 6:55 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > New to Beancount, but already loving it! > > Automating imports from PDF statements was surprisingly straightforward. > Using subprocess.run() to calling tabula-java with the --guess flag yields > excellent results. >
Thx Tabula is great indeed, though I think we can do better eventually. (Many have solved this problem in the commercial space) > Now I am tackling salary postings. I would like some advice on how to > handle "purchased leave". > > Purchased leave allows you to receive a credit of leave hours from your > employer. This is paid back over some agreed time period with deductions > from your periodic salary. The purchased leave hours themselves are spent > as time off during the aforementioned time period. > So for example, you just joined a company, but would like to take vacations before you've accrued the necessary number of vacation hours, is that right, so they allow you to take them but you'll pay for them later in foregone income? > I am struggling with how to best model these transactions - primarily the > account type, currency and conversions. I have no accounting experience, > but the Beancount models and documentation really gel with my engineering > brain. > > - I think that purchased leave might be classed a liability. Is this > correct? My reasoning is that purchased leave hours are "credited" to me by > the employer. > > Sounds right to me. It's something you owe. You've spend it as vacation (an expense, a positive number) and balance it with a credit against your employer (a liability, a negative number). > > - I would like to keep the purchased leave account in a time-based > currency. The cookbook talks about this, and makes sense given how I think > about spending leave: in time, not money. > > Sure, I use "vacation hours" for accrual (VACHR). It's a little funny as when my salary increases, the price of those hours goes up a bit. It works. It's a bit annoying to see my balance sheet go down whenever I take (spend those hours into) a long vacation, but it's accurate. > - However, deductions for leave are shown in dollars in the pay stub. > This clearly corresponds to some fractional amount of leave hours paid > back. > > Use a conversion at the price used. > > - Purchased leave hours are credited up front. The amount (in dollars) > to be paid back is agreed at that time, as well as the payback duration and > pay deduction amounts. > - So, should I create a liability account for purchased leave, with a > time-based currency (say, hours)? > > I would do that. > > - Should I "price" the conversion between hours and dollars at that > agreement date? > > I think so. > - Will this allow me to post the purchased leave pay deduction in > dollars, as seen on the pay stub, and auto-convert to "hours paid back"? > > Send some example transactions and we can comment. It'll be much more than words can do. > -- > 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/61adc511-a1b8-4cf4-9590-71961a5e3f4b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/61adc511-a1b8-4cf4-9590-71961a5e3f4b%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/CAK21%2BhOXCuhvOJcxUe19eoKsbPHqpcXpAehPiLgSyb0Efuy9UQ%40mail.gmail.com.
