So, I've made a bunch of progress on many of my issues, but I
haven't yet figured out how to get cost tracking through transfers
working.  It's illustrated by example in the below email.

Any suggestions on how to start attacking this are welcome.  I
am willing to jump into beancount core code if need be -- I am
actually not even entirely sure what work, if any, is needed
there (see my questions on this other thread
<https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/vDX1oA2mJXA/m/Y8yZqUqPAQAJ>)

thanks,
eric

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 3:36 PM Eric Altendorf <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:38 PM Daniele Nicolodi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do, what beancount
>> does, and what you expect it to be doing. Can you present a minimal
>> ledger that shows the problem?
>>
>
> Sure, here is one.  Perhaps my understanding or expectations are wrong (or
> I've made a dumb typo).
>
> 2000-01-01 open Equity:Opening-Balances
> 2020-01-01 open Assets:BrokerA:USD USD
> 2020-01-01 open Assets:BrokerA:ASSET ASSET
> 2020-01-01 open Assets:BrokerB:ASSET ASSET
>
> 2020-01-01 pad      Assets:BrokerA:USD  Equity:Opening-Balances
> 2020-01-02 balance  Assets:BrokerA:USD  100.00 USD
>
> 2020-02-01 * "Buy some ASSET"
>   Assets:BrokerA:ASSET                   5.00 ASSET {10.00 USD}
>   Assets:BrokerA:USD                   -50.00 USD
>
> 2020-03-01 * "Buy some more ASSET"
>   Assets:BrokerA:ASSET                   4.00 ASSET {12.50 USD}
>   Assets:BrokerA:USD                   -50.00 USD
>
> 2020-05-01 * "Transfer ASSET"
>   Assets:BrokerA:ASSET                  -9.00 ASSET
>   Assets:BrokerB:ASSET                   9.00 ASSET
>
>
> Now I try these two queries on the ledger:
>
> beanquery> SELECT account, position, cost_date FROM has_account("Assets")
> CLOSE ON 2020-04-01
>         account                   position          cost_date
> -----------------------  -------------------------  ----------
> Assets:BrokerA:USD        100.00 USD
> Equity:Opening-Balances  -100.00 USD
> Assets:BrokerA:ASSET        5.00 ASSET {10.00 USD}  2020-02-01
> Assets:BrokerA:USD        -50.00 USD
> Assets:BrokerA:ASSET        4.00 ASSET {12.50 USD}  2020-03-01
> Assets:BrokerA:USD        -50.00 USD
>
> beanquery> SELECT account, position, cost_date FROM has_account("Assets")
> CLOSE ON 2020-06-01
>         account                   position          cost_date
> -----------------------  -------------------------  ----------
> Assets:BrokerA:USD        100.00 USD
> Equity:Opening-Balances  -100.00 USD
> Assets:BrokerA:ASSET        5.00 ASSET {10.00 USD}  2020-02-01
> Assets:BrokerA:USD        -50.00 USD
> Assets:BrokerA:ASSET        4.00 ASSET {12.50 USD}  2020-03-01
> Assets:BrokerA:USD        -50.00 USD
> Assets:BrokerA:ASSET       -9.00 ASSET
> Assets:BrokerB:ASSET        9.00 ASSET
>
> Before the transfer, it appears the the two lots appear separately in
> BrokerA with a cost and date.  After the transfer, in the BrokerB account,
> they've been merged with no cost or date.
>
> If I annotate one, the other, or both legs of the transfer transaction in
> the ledger, with either "{USD}" or "{}" cost specs, I can induce various
> other behaviors, but I'm just acting like a monkey with a keyboard :) , and
> none of them are what I want, which is for BrokerB to contain both lots
> with the original cost info.
>
> I think this is the same question I asked here:
> https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/vDX1oA2mJXA/m/Y8yZqUqPAQAJ
>
> eric
>

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