"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes: > Bbut I need to keep track of how much milk I take to calculate how much I > pay, problem is after paying in cash I still hold milk as a commodity. > see my example > > This is basically asking “how do I model what I want using double entry > bookkeeping?” > which is a common question, but not really related to Beancount (except > perhaps for some > trivial figuring out of syntax at the end).
Yes, I realize this is my problem. > I’d suggest writing up (in plain words) what you are trying to >accomplish, which I couldn’t tell from your current set of posts. What >are your goals? What do you want your assets, liabilities, and expenses >to reflect with respect to milk? Sorry for not being clear. My end goal for using beancount is that I want to know future income/expenses and plan accordingly. This is, be able to answer: How much MONEY will I have at X date? Will I have enough money in the bank to pay Y? When would I have saved enough to buy Z? regarding milk I want to do this: 2025-11-07 * "Milk" Expenses:Groceries 3 MILK @ 0.6 EUR Liabilitios:Milk EUR without having to specify "@ 0.6 EUR" in every transaction, I want beancount to take the price directive. Why? because I know how many liters I take everytime, but I don't know if the price may have change. If I don't specify "@ 0.6 EUR" my liabilities in fava will show I owe lot of milk and that they owe me EUR. unless of course I select convert to EUR. > > This gives a net profit af 1400 USD but balance in account is 1250 > > Sounds correct to me. I’m guessing your mental model of Net Profit is > probably different > from what is accepted as its definition. How do you define it in your mind? > > Here, your Liabilities went down by 150 which is the same as your Assets > going up by > 150. It’s as if you took the 150 and put it in a different bank. Therefore, > the 150 does > not affect your net profit. > This was my initial understanding too, but: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:05:09 -0700 (PDT) "[email protected]" wrote: > So money flows from Assets:Bank to Liabilities:Mortgage and > Expenses:Interest. There’s > nothing you should have to do: your net profit and net worth should all > compute > correctly as expected. Which confused me, maybe I didn't hunderstand what redst was telling me or I didn't explain correctly. Now, what I am doing, is using "plugin "beancount_reds_plugins.rename_accounts.rename_accounts" to rename mortage pricipal to an expense in fava. This works great and now my Net Profit reflects correctly. if there is another way towhat money I really have available (Income - Expenses - Lean payments on Liabilities) I am all ears > On Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 5:13:25 AM UTC-8 Alan H wrote: > > No. This is a feature, not a bug. > > I find the plugin approach is useful > > +1 Which resources do you recommend? Is the book tracking your finances with python worth it? I know some programming, but I haven't touch python in ages. As I told: I don't want to spend hours to accomplish my financial tracking goals, but also the reason to use beancount was it extensibility if it will let me say, automate getting my bank statements and create dashboards with the info I need... it will be worth it. 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/87o6pbej0l.fsf%40posteo.org.
