Robert, OK, thanks, understood.
On Friday, February 24, 2023 at 6:48:41 PM UTC+1 Robert S wrote: > No plugins are necessary; this is all computed on the Balance Sheet view > in Fava. You use the selector in the upper-right to switch between "At > Cost", "At Market Value", and "Units". Using the example car transactions > above, prior to the sale, the Balance Sheet would show: > > - At Cost: 16,000 EUR (the original cost of the car plus -4,000 EUR of > accumulated depreciation). > - At Market Value: the same (16,000 EUR) *unless* you also had price > entries for CAR.MAKEMODEL, which would then be the most recent price plus > -4,000 EUR of accumulated depreciation. Above the current value, it would > show in green or red the gain/loss from the current value (cost plus > accumulated depreciation). > - Units: 1 CAR.MAKEMODEL *and* -4,000 EUR of accumulated depreciation > (the mixed commodities). > > - Robert > On Monday, February 20, 2023 at 10:02:05 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> Robert, >> >> RE: *Fava's unrealized gain/loss report will show the PnL from the >> balance sheet value (i.e. the cost plus accumulated depreciation or capital >> improvements).* >> >> Can you please can you please point me to this *Fava's unrealized >> gain/loss report. *I did some looking around, but could not find it. >> >> I can see, that there is a normal unrealized gains plugin >> <https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/v2/beancount/plugins/unrealized.py>, >> >> but I understand you meant something else >> >> Regards. >> >> >> On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 6:18:28 PM UTC+1 Robert S wrote: >> You would track a house the same way. Except most people do not >> depreciate their homes, but instead spend money on capital improvements: >> >> 2022-01-01 * "House" "Purchase" >> Assets:Bank:MyBank -500,000 EUR >> Expenses:Property:AcquisitionFees 50,000 EUR >> Assets:Property:Address 1 HOUSE.ADDRESS {450,000 EUR} >> 2022-06-01 * "House" "New Roof" >> Assets:Bank:MyBank -30,000 EUR >> Assets:Property:Address 30,000 EUR >> >> The price of the house and the car both depend on the market; that's what >> I mentioned at the bottom of my previous message. Any time you receive >> market information about the current price of an asset, you can insert a >> price directive for it: >> >> 2021-06-01 price CAR.MAKEMODEL 17,500 EUR >> 2022-07-01 price HOUSE.ADDRESS 465,000 EUR >> >> Fava's unrealized gain/loss report will show the PnL from the balance >> sheet value (i.e. the cost plus accumulated depreciation or capital >> improvements). >> >> - Robert >> >> P.S. I also use a plugin to automate inserting the adjusting entries for >> depreciation and amortization. I just wanted to illustrate the manual >> process in my first reply. >> >> On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 4:26:05 AM UTC-5 char wrote: >> Ok, >> >> thank you very much for all your comments! >> >> But what about for instance buying a house? >> >> House can go up in price and it does depend on the market. >> >> How would you track buying the house? >> >> On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 3:44:26 AM UTC+1 Red S wrote: >> On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 4:48:15 PM UTC-8 Robert S wrote: >> The transactions would look like: >> >> 2020-01-01 * "Car" "Purchase" >> Assets:Bank:MyBank -20,000 EUR >> Assets:Equipment:Vehicles 1 CAR.MAKEMODEL {20,000 EUR} >> 2020-12-31 * "Car" "Depreciation Expense" >> Assets:Equipment:Vehicles >> Expenses:AccumulatedDepreciation 2,000 EUR >> 2021-12-31 * "Car" "Depreciation Expense" >> Assets:Equipment:Vehicles >> Expenses:AccumulatedDepreciation 2,000 EUR >> >> Above is how I do it as well. I use the effective_date plugin >> <https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_plugins/tree/main/beancount_reds_plugins/effective_date> >> to >> automate the above. >> > -- 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/172fb69b-459a-4de3-9166-8a0b31c8608bn%40googlegroups.com.
