Hey! So, in my country we can pay stuff like clothes and many other things in interest-free (sometimes) payments from 3 up to 18 months in some cases.
For example, I bought two t shirts for ~10.000 ARS. I'll pay them in three installments of 3333 ARS each. As my currency has high inflation, the actual cost of acquisition is lower than 10000 ARS (would be ~8800 ARS), I'd like to have my expenses be monthly. I know I could do: 2023-07-28 * "Buy t shirts" Liabilities:CreditCard -10000 ARS Expenses:Clothes 10000 ARS But I'd like to do it in a way that when I see my expenses for the months, the expense in clothes is 3333 ARS, not 10000 ARS. I thought about something like: 2023-07-28 * "Buy t shirts" Liabilities:CreditCard -10000 ARS Equity:CreditCard:FutureInstallments 6666 ARS Expenses:Clothes 3333 ARS I don't have an accounting background, and I'm not sure if using the Equity account would make sense in this case. When the second installment comes around, I'd do: *balance would be 3333 ARS* 2023-08-26 * "Paying off balance" Assets:Checking -3333 ARS Liabilities:CreditCard 3333 ARS Equity:CreditCard:FutureInstallments -3333 ARS Expenses:Clothes 3333 ARS Would that be ok? It would show me the correct amount of money that I owe, and the correct money I spent in a given month. I'm not sure if I'm not shoving the problem down to Equity in this case. -- 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/4c27be40-edbe-4189-bc0f-8eda891b5700n%40googlegroups.com.
