Hi Dan Focusing on (a design choince?) >>The balance directives are to be intended as "start of the day balance"
Out of curiousity, what is the motivation behind making balances "beginning-of-day-balances"? Would there be a point to challenge this? In my reality, bank accounts provide the daily transactions and the month-end balance (=end-of-last-day-in-the-month-balance) at the last day of the month. Hence, I have to adjust the balance date each time to the next day to avoid balance mismatch errors. Based on this experience, for me it is intuitively clear that a balance should apply to the end of a day, and accordingly I struggled with that in the beginning. Thanks! Best, nugget On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 at 21:22:07 UTC+2 dan...@grinta.net wrote: > For whom is following from home, Sagar shared a minimal example with me > in a private message (I don't know why, the example does not contain any > personal information, AFAICT). > > The issue is this: > > 2023-08-31 pad Assets:Debt:Friend Equity:Opening-Balance > > 2023-08-31 balance Assets:Debt:Friend 10000 PHP > > The pad and balance directives have the same date. Benancount orders > balance directives before any other directive. The balance directives > are to be intended as "start of the day balance". The order in which the > directives are processed is actually the reverse of how they are > written, and thus the balance assertion fails and the pad is unused. > > Moving the balance assertion to 2023-09-01 fixes the issue. > > Cheers, > Dan > > > On 02/09/23 01:35, Sagar Shankar wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > Yes these are the only errors I get. Its confusing as you said because > > all the declarations seem completely fine to me > > > > Thanks > > Sagar > > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 7:17 PM Daniele Nicolodi <dan...@grinta.net > > <mailto:dan...@grinta.net>> wrote: > > > > On 01/09/23 00:58, Sagar Shankar wrote: > > > Hi all, just started using Beancount a few days back, had been using > > > Ledger before. > > > > > > I'm struggling to get a pad transaction working in my new > > beancount ledger. > > > > > > 1. create the pad transaction > > > 2023-08-01 pad Assets:Debt:Friend Equity:Opening-Balance > > > > > > 2. A few transactions on this Debt account follow > > > 2023-08-29 * "Paid to cash" > > > Assets:Savings-60.45 USD > > > Assets:Debt:Friend > > > > > > 2023-08-29 * "Paid for xyz on my behalf" > > > Assets:Debt:Friend-342.56 USD > > > Expenses:Something > > > > > > 3. Then I do a balance assertion, to update the balance to the > > correct > > > amount in my other account ledger > > > 2023-08-31 balance Assets:Debt:Friend1000 USD > > > > > > And then I get the following errors in Fava: > > > Unused Pad entry > > > Balance failed for 'Assets:Debt:Friend': expected so and so USD != > > > accumulated XYZ USD (ABC too little) > > > > The example above works as expected for me. Your ledger must be invalid > > for some other reason. Are these the only errors you get? > > > > Cheers, > > Dan > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in > > the Google Groups "Beancount" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/nD-1y0eLDis/unsubscribe > > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/nD-1y0eLDis/unsubscribe>. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > beancount+...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:beancount%2bunsu...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/8921f2fc-1bcf-40c9-71e5-561fc2552aa1%40grinta.net > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/8921f2fc-1bcf-40c9-71e5-561fc2552aa1%40grinta.net > >. > > > > -- > > 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 beancount+...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:beancount+...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAAP45exFubyccKf13hsmH3J9M6E%2BXUDXKAHc047rQDdJQ%3DgE5A%40mail.gmail.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAAP45exFubyccKf13hsmH3J9M6E%2BXUDXKAHc047rQDdJQ%3DgE5A%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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/166d37bd-8399-4834-97c6-5cbfac1d07c8n%40googlegroups.com.
