Thanks. My use case may be different but in a different direction. I'm not looking to daily track income and expenses.
I have a handful of all-time transaction records and I want to be able to - combine & merge them - apply some manual exception transformation rules - apply decisions made by a previous run that I want "locked in" - run beancount to make booking decisions and compute cap gains, and record those decisions for next year And I'd like that to be a reproducible process to "build" my tax record and generate reports. I'll mess with it once a year, running it a bunch of times and tweaking until I've got it right, then generate the reports for taxes and lock it in for the year. I'm starting to think that maybe Beancount is a good match for the last bullet point, but I need to write my own build system for the other points, perhaps? On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:26 PM Filip Filmar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM Eric Altendorf <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Do my questions suggest I have the wrong mental model for using >> Beancount? 😬 >> > > You may be assuming more automation than there is. > > IMHO the real value of accounting software is in automation. And beancount > today doesn't do that, which is why I gave up on it in favor of Tiller. > > It's still a great idea, and what it does, it does well. If anything, I > dislike that today your financial data is mostly owned by whatever company > happens to provide your books, and beancount does swimmingly as an > alternative. But it's far from a product that I can use on a daily basis. > > F > > -- > 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/CAKaOXijbZW_v6LU32unkULhL1W1f_1XAym%3DdqdJeytOeiPAfJA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKaOXijbZW_v6LU32unkULhL1W1f_1XAym%3DdqdJeytOeiPAfJA%40mail.gmail.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/CAFXPr0uNsfA4rQHCYL1V%3DQFU8uNLi_o72ByZCvQTPNVZ__X7DA%40mail.gmail.com.
