On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Peter Ross wrote:
> With the above the balance sheet and income and expense report don't
> match. The balance sheet should change by the amount of profit earnt.
Ah, you need a bit more then:
D 1,000.00 AUD
D 1,000.00 EUR
2009/01/01 First sale
Assets:Bank 10000.00 AUD
Income:Sales
2009/02/01 Marketing (1 EUR = 2.00 AUD)
Expenses:Marketing 2000.00 AUD
Liabilities:Accounts Payable:EUR -1000.00 EUR
2009/03/01 Pay Marketing Invoice (1 EUR = 1.95 AUD)
Liabilities:Accounts Payable:EUR 1000.00 EUR {2 AUD}
Assets:Bank -1950.00 AUD
Income:Currency Exchange -50.00 AUD
The use of {2 AUD} matches up those particular EUR with the ones you received
on 2/1, yielding a 50 capital gain which must be balanced (into Income in this
case). Now I get:
~ $ ledger -f /tmp/bug.dat bal assets
8,050.00 AUD Assets:Bank
~ $ ledger -f /tmp/bug.dat bal income expense
2,000.00 AUD Expenses:Marketing
-10,050.00 AUD Income
-50.00 AUD Currency Exchange
-10,000.00 AUD Sales
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-8,050.00 AUD
John
