On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:41:55PM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ivan Petrov <[email protected]> [2024-06-30 00:29]: > > One simple question: Should i book loses to Income:PnL, or should it be > > something like Expenses:PnL? > > > > I have searched through the mailing list and documentation, but > > unfortunately, haven't found an answer. The idea is always around profits. > > I use Expenses:Capital-loss
This is a recurring dilemma for me in many similar situations. (Another one being reimbursements for work missions, where sometime you gain some money, sometimes you lose some.) Ideally you should book separately Income:Capital-gain and Expenses:Capital-loss. But then to query your "net" result you need to subtract one from the other and, last time I checked at least, Beanquery didn't allow to have one derived column with the difference between two other columns. (Nor Fava supports anything like that in an ergonomic way out of the box.) The alternative is going for Expenses:PnL (or Income:PnL) and book everything under that single account. The main drawback for is that checks I have for all expenses (or all incomes) based on account names are more difficult to apply/enforce. I'd really love to have a general and ergonomic solution to this problem. Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . https://upsilon.cc/zack _. ^ ._ Full professor of Computer Science o o o \/|V|\/ Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris o o o </> <\> Co-founder & CTO Software Heritage o o o o /\|^|/\ https://twitter.com/zacchiro . https://mastodon.xyz/@zacchiro '" V "' -- 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/20240630173553.sy6oeecallgivu6u%40upsilon.cc.
