On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 9:42:57 PM UTC+2 Oscar & Alejandra wrote:
For my use case it is helpful for me to see an overview of my monthly expenses for budgeting purposes, but I get paid bi-weekly and many times I pay bills as soon as I get paid, which is frequently the month prior to when my bill is actually due. By being able to specify when the 'expense' is tracked vs when the money actually leaves my account I am able to both budget on a monthly basis and do a balance check when my bank statements come out. I think what you are talking about is called an accrual accounting <https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/accrual-accounting.asp> You can still can do it now 2024-01-20 * "Advance payment for a Electricity bill for Feb" Assets:Bank -100 USD Assets:Advanced-Payments:Electricity 100 USD 2024-02-01 * "Payment for Electricity bill for Feb" Assets:Advanced-Payments:Electricity -100 USD Expenses:Electricity 100 USD Though I agree, this is a bit manual You would probably want to write it like this: 2024-01-20 * "Payment for a Electricity bill for Feb" Assets:Bank -100 USD Expenses:Electricity 100 USD accrual_date: "2024-02-01" and then have a plugin to turn it to a 2 transactions as above -- 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/bb20ea90-1be7-4956-86b0-91df5fdbe54fn%40googlegroups.com.
