Hi there,
I've finally started getting my finances together. My general set of
accounts is:
Assets
Personal
Current
Expenses
(lots of subaccounts)
Income
I've only recently opened the new "personal" account with my bank - I
previously only had 1 bank account. So what I've done for previous months is
attempted to use virtual transactions to mark when something should really
have came out of my personal spending account:
2011/08/02=2011/07/30 New Laptop
Expenses:eBay £482.00 ; :work:hardware:
Assets:Current
[Assets:Current] £482.00
[Assets:Personal] £-482.00
So I've said that this really came out my personal assets. This is working
great, and I now want to leverage this history to work out how much money
tends to go directly out of the Personal account. I can do the following:
ledger reg -S date --monthly Assets:Personal
To get the overall change in the account, but this isn't really what I'm
looking for. For example, if I spend £100.00 (Assets:Personal -> Expenses),
but also transfer £150.00 (Assets:Current -> Assets:Personal, on pay day),
then overall this figure will be £50.00, but I really want it to be £100.00.
I'm doing this so I can figure out how much I actually spend from
Current/Personal accounts each month, to better distribute my monthly wages
between bills, personal spending and longer term savings.
Hope this makes sense!
