On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:05 AM Jay Goel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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(). > To be clear: the plugin doesn't do that, it merely ensures that the @ price annotations on your lots are carried to the internal price database. If you use COST() it won't make any difference. 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAO3%3DNrhy3NWTLVp0GAVeiD41hwdBciuKS6FA5iAArsgjsEyh4w%40mail.gmail.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%2BhOeyazuD%2BojoiaA-jxQDcwLiz_j8QP%2Bjfzvi4XdYC9VOQ%40mail.gmail.com.
