Hi Franco! I'm from Argentina too, and a beginner with beanacount. I came to the mailing list with the same question. I was looking something like "Buy now pay later", as a I think americans says. I will follow instructions to register "cuotas", as I use them very often
El viernes, 28 de julio de 2023 a la(s) 20:37:13 UTC-3, francocalvo escribió: > 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/1ea839cc-8691-4ba8-986f-7d29b80d7aefn%40googlegroups.com.
