In my ledger i've let these accounts have multiple currencies and do a conversion in one or the other when reporting / computing balances.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 23:41 Dmitry Kudryavtsev <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently I made a relocation. This means I now live with two main > currencies. > > Before relocating, I used currency as a name for the leaf account. So if I > had a bank account BankA that held both EUR and USD, I’d have two account > BankA:EUR and BankA:USD. > > However, since most of my expenses were made from my main currency, I > usually recorded that in that currency, even when traveling, since the bank > usually did the conversion of which I didn’t care. So my income/expense had > one level, let’s say Expenses:Groceries. > > Now I have more than 10 years worth of financial data in my main currency > and I’m wondering how to move forward. I could let Groceries have expenses > in two currencies, but in GnuCash I adopted the currency name as a leaf for > most income/expenses as well, so I’d have Groceries:USD and Groceries:EUR. > > Is this a good model for starting with beancount, or I should just let > income/expenses contain multiple currencies? > > Thanks! > > -- > 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/CAEzdkV9ZWWVET9FgUQuHBX-%3DnoriruTi6Tu%3DKeTy_O0P1VDhYA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAEzdkV9ZWWVET9FgUQuHBX-%3DnoriruTi6Tu%3DKeTy_O0P1VDhYA%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhOQ_QDtqP9WU%2BHSq7Dw1OZ5ba66FZ_w0iPES5DwJY9Jcw%40mail.gmail.com.
