Thanks. I slept on it and I think it makes sense to create a subcategory for expenses in each country, the same way as "Income:US:Salary" and "Income:UK:Salary" is shown as an example in the documentation. This allows to have proper separation between the two countries. On the other hand, on expenses such as travel, I think it makes sense to have on category, such as "Expenses:Travel:Flights", that can hold transactions in multiple currencies.
On Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 9:39:54 AM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > 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/ea5897f1-071a-42b4-b431-7e7a6e4b3639n%40googlegroups.com.
