Again, John, thanks very much for your quick reply. I'll look into the "query" versus "value" expression distinction more carefully.
Ledger seems both powerful and adaptable. But I'm finding the learning curve (apart from the accounting concept stuff which the manual explains pretty well) is non-trivial. Thank you for your efforts. Best, Peter On Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:32:22 AM UTC+11, Peter Gallagher wrote: > > I'm trying Ledger (3.0 -- using "John's build" on OS X) but I've run into > a couple of problems with automatic transactions in my journal. > > I need to include value-added tax calculations (GST in Australia) in > Expenses and Income accounts -- but not all of them. I've been using this > entry: > > = /^Expenses:Business/ > $account -0.09 > Liabilities:GST:GST Paid 0.09 > > But... > > (i) Ledger raises a 'Warning' when using "--strict" about $account. Why? > Is there another 'anonymous' name I should be using? > > (ii) I would like to exclude *some* business expenses on which GST taxes > are NOT payable by using a tag; say 'nogst'. I would like to use it like > this > > = (not tag no-gst) and /^Expenses:Business/ > $account -0 > Liabilities:BAS:GST:GST Paid 0 > > But that does not seem to work. Nor does John's suggestion > here<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ledger-cli/McnIEiCuO8Y/OHJ1nU46MAkJ> > work > for me. > > I'd be grateful for help on either of these from experienced Ledger users. > > Peter > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
