Dear all,

I don't think there was a discussion like this.

I want to figure out how to track capital investments I can't treat this 
like just expenses, as if I have today purchased a car for 20000 EURO my 
net worth is immediately lower tomorrow by 20000 EURO, which is totally 
different from say going for vacation for 20000 EUR

This is how I plan to track capital investments:



I plan to track by creating a commodity MYCAR and placing 1 item of it the 
Assets:Capital account

 2020-01-01 commodity MYCAR
  name: "Ford Focus XXXXXXX"
  assets-class: "car"

 2020-01-01 *  "Buying car"
   Assets:Bank:Payment         -20000 EUR
   Assets:Capital                         1 MYCAR  @@  -20000 EUR

And then in prices table I will show the depreciation of the value of the 
car

 2020-01-01 price  MYCAR  20000 EUR
 2021-01-01 price  MYCAR  18000 EUR
 2022-01-01 price  MYCAR  16000 EUR

Later I can use the unrealized gains plugin (which I still need to figure 
out how to use) to show depreciation of the value of the car as an 
unrealized cost

Any feedback?


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