* nugget <[email protected]> [2020-08-08 00:11]: > I.e. when splitting up a transaction into multiple transactions. > say distribute a yearly transaction over 12 months or a weekly one > over 7 days. > > Naively, I would take 1 CHF and divide it by 12, and make 12 > transactions. I dislike having my posting look like " > 0.08333333333333332870740406406184774823486804962158203125".But > simply rounding will introduce an error of 4%: round(1/12,2) = 0.8, > and 12*0.8 = 0.96
I'm not sure what your transaction is about, but I'd ask a completely different question: is it material? If we're only talking about 1 CHF, does it really matter whether you book it on one day vs splitting it up every month. If we're talking about 1000 CHF, it might make a material difference, but for 1 CHF I'd say that splitting it across multiple months is just not worth it. If it does matter, I would book 0.08 for 11 months and 0.12 in the last month (or the other way around). -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.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/20200808111843.GH11541%40jirafa.cyrius.com.
