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.
>>
>

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