Yeah this is the way I’m using now. But ideally I would like to make sure no transactions are before 2025-08-01, as plugins like beangrow/fava-portfolio-returns may use those early opening transactions and they are not the full picture of historical cash flows.
Should I include Equity:Opening-Balances as a cash account for investments in beangrow? Thanks. On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't need to draw on anything, you just record it on the actually > date and cost you bought it at and insert a price directive for 150. It's > an unrealized gain, no cash had been received. > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2025, 21:02 Chang Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Suppose I buy a share of HOOL at 100 USD on 2025-01-01. >> But I start beancount on 2025-08-01, when HOOL is 150 USD. >> What is the best way to start the book on 2025-08-01? >> >> I think the ideal* way is to draw 150 USD from Equity:Opening-Balances on >> 2025-08-01, but record this lot of the HOOL share at 100 USD with an >> acquisition date of 2025-01-01. However, I don't know how to book this >> without causing an error/imbalance in beancount. >> >> (*Ideally, I want no transactions before 2025-08-01, but I'd like to keep >> the lot information.) >> >> -- >> 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 visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/a21aeaa4-090c-485f-bce9-dfad4308c234n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/a21aeaa4-090c-485f-bce9-dfad4308c234n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/JKQ7_0IVXTU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMs06vpETq%2BM8u09uaehk3jU%2BYYD51HC-2PpGgG59a0yQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMs06vpETq%2BM8u09uaehk3jU%2BYYD51HC-2PpGgG59a0yQ%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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAGyuYwC1fxcZKGJgyA_z9oURP66%2Bsj7CnYK83T_3Sp1q9DSOWA%40mail.gmail.com.
