Hello there, I am trying to familiarize again with accounting. I am a real beginner in that domain. I read a lot but I do not want to stay stupid and I'd rather ask you about help.
So, I am using ledger 2.6 (and ledger.el off course) on my slackware GNU/linux system. As far as I can see, all seems to be ok (I plan to upgrade slackbuild to latest stable as soon as slackware 14 is released). So let's present my present situations. I want to track many accounts: - my checking account (on which I also own a credit card) - my saving accounts - my "fund" accounts - my sons' saving accounts - my "join account" (dunno if it is the good wording; this is a shared account with my wife) I stupidely entered all my data since june 2012 into my system and principaly my personnal account (I do not want to track to much thing without a good basement :)). Today, I would like to know how I could automatically feed my sons accounts when my salary hits my asset account. I thought something like this would work: = /^Income:Salaire/ Assets:Saving:son1 15.00 EUR Assets:Saving:son2 15.00 EUR Assets:Join 1000.00 EUR but it does not. How would you do this ? Second, knowing I do not track these accounts effectively today, could this be feeded to virtual accounts and then be switched to "real" accounts ? What's the best approach ? Does an automatic transaction appear in the budget ? Thank you very much Xavier
