The things is I’m new to PTA so I’m somewhat afraid to commit to a particular CoA, so I’m trying to come with the best setup right ahead. But I guess I just need to start and see how it goes throughout at least one/two tax seasons.
I had similar concerns long ago. And this seems to be a general theme that comes up over and over with setting up one's accounting system, and it makes sense that it does. The beautiful thing about PTA (or the Beancount ecosystem at least), is it's extremely easy to make changes to one's account structure and even transaction structure at any point. Changing account structure permanently is a simple sed command. Doing it temporarily on demand can be done via a plugin <https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_plugins/tree/main/beancount_reds_plugins/rename_accounts#readme>. More complex transformations of your ledger file can be done via autobean <https://autobean-refactor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html>. What've I've found with all of this is, I don't need to sweat out making an optimal decision upfront. Your approach about just starting and trying it out will work really well! -- 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/9e1e37eb-5d65-47cf-9920-2e2ea7b60efen%40googlegroups.com.
