Thank you for the swift response! re: Implicit Prices - okay, now I understand the behavior of this plugin, which is to use market value, not book value, of inventories. In my case, I care most about book value. I will need to read up on Beancount's SQL language and can familiarize myself with COST().
If it were possible to achieve the behavior of the "implicit_prices" plugin but use the book value, that would be very convenient, as then I could use dollars for all of my reporting "out of the box". This wouldn't necessarily make sense for currencies, but convenient for this use-case. Maybe a project... The reddit thread <https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/hd85p4/why_does_deferred_revenue_change_when_new_lots/> was mine! I seem to have come across the same behavior in two different contexts as I've worked through getting everything set up. When I disable that plugin, then the balance sheet makes more sense: 200 USD and 50 NOTEBOOKS in assets, and -1000 USD in Opening-Balances. The bottom line of the trial balance is a little bit less intuitive to me: -800.00 USD, 50 NOTEBOOKS, though I can reason through why it is expressed that way. It seems like, overall, I should avoid using using NOTEBOOKS interchangeably with USD. If I'm incrementing or decrementing the number of books that I have, then use that. Otherwise, it seems like the most sound thing is to avoid using book value as a shorthand for USD. I'll keep working on this - many thanks for your help! Jay On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:20 AM Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> [2020-06-22 12:13]: > > I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding something but this looks like a > > pretty serious issue to me. > > Never mind. I was confused... > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > https://www.cyrius.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/gmMBWQyGOq4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20200622042037.GB1902%40jirafa.cyrius.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/CAO3%3DNrhy3NWTLVp0GAVeiD41hwdBciuKS6FA5iAArsgjsEyh4w%40mail.gmail.com.
