+1 to that On Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 19:12 Dmitry Kudryavtsev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/ea5897f1-071a-42b4-b431-7e7a6e4b3639n%40googlegroups.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%2BhPhWoueS1Cp2RgTeNbjLwZW%3D6j146xkccaHrcdCB-%2BGYQ%40mail.gmail.com.
