Michael Farnbach <noble.obl...@gmail.com> writes: > Now, I see a problem in doing this. Ledger's strengths in my opinion are in > its stateless ledger, and by that I mean each entry can be anywhere in the > ledger. And to add this to the entry itself in the ledger file would create > a state that would then have to be tracked or conflict with what happens > before or after it.
Ledger is not really stateless. There are a lot of features that depend on the order it sees transactions in, since sorting by date is not strict enough. You can accomplish "setting to the bank's view" with a transaction like this: 2011-08-12 Sample Assets:Checking = $200.00 Equity:Adjustments This tells Ledger (Git/3.0) that your checking account's balance must be $200 after this transaction is completed. It will put whatever amounts are required to accomplish this into the Equity:Adjustments account. > Now, in full disclosure I'm an avid 2.6 user, I don't know if Hledger, > Beancount, or 3.0 Ledger has this functionality already. I think it does. :) I call it a "balance adjustment". John
