I don't fully understand. Can you write down how you would modify this transaction manually, both to just one account, and also if you were to split to multiple expenses accounts? Do you want to record the expense in foreign (usd) currency to local (eur)?
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 03:49 Daniele Nicolodi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > . > -- 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%2BhNg9StFJ3cdn86ZBU_W37eNR36ges0sw566utC0gWp%2BtQ%40mail.gmail.com.
