Hello, I deal very often with transactions in foreign currency (currency different from the account currency) and I am looking for improving my workflow to handle them.
My importers, usually, import transactions writing only one posting recording the expense, like this: 2020-08-26 ! "RESTAURANT GAMBIT BRAUNSCHWEIG" Liabilities:Nexi -16.30 EUR and then I complete transaction writing the other postings, either manually or through a machine learning classifier. For foreign currency transactions, I like to record the fact that the expense was in a currency different from the account currency and that part of the expense was for transaction handling fees. This results in the importers writing something like: 2020-08-25 ! "AVIS RENT-A-CAR 1 BOULDER" Liabilities:Nexi -224.18 EUR Expenses:Unknown 258.94 USD @ 0.8487523 EUR Expenses:Fees:Nexi 4.40 EUR using the Expenses:Unknown account as a placeholder. However, this makes posting the expense to the right account a bit harder, both manually and programmatically: the posting needs to be modified instead than simply added and it gets even more complicated if I want to split the expense over multiple Expenses accounts. Does anyone have a better way of dealing with this? Cheers, Dan -- 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/35a34d40-1f19-6434-b23b-b6c4df973fb4%40grinta.net.
