One important design decision in beancount (an idea borrowed from Ledger originally) is to do away with credit accounts and debit accounts. Income, liabilities and equity accounts all normally have negative signs, so that is correct. (It's a bit like programmers counting from zero and not one).
See the a section in the documentation about this. On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 08:10 Andrew Chiw <[email protected]> wrote: > I followed the Beancount getting started guide, and made transactions from > my bank account to my different categories like this: > > 2019-01-24 * "Employer" "Invoice 23" > Income:DE:Salary > Assets:Bank 2000 EUR > > 2019-01-02 * "Stromio GmbH" "ABSCHLAG Strom" > Assets:Bank -87.0 EUR > Expenses:Core:Electricity > > However, if I saved money from my income, fava reports a negative "net > profit", and if I used more than I got, fava says I have a positive "net > profit". Am I doing things wrong somehow? > Thanks, > Andrew > > -- > 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/b5c42a27-fe2a-49e5-82d0-f127303e47dbn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b5c42a27-fe2a-49e5-82d0-f127303e47dbn%40googlegroups.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%2BhP%2BVLF3%2Bmys39JHM3RdS9%2B%2BWnxW3QQ9-A7NusMKfkqKkw%40mail.gmail.com.
