How about multiple accounts in one file: Joint:Expenses:Food
My:Expenses:Whatever You can be as precise as you need to in the Joint accounts, so there isn't just one combined account there. If you need to model mutual obligations, you can always have accounts like My:Liabilities:Owing Joint My:Assets:Owed by Joint My:Assets:Owed by Partner Maybe. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > Get married. It will solve all of these problems. > > I think some virtual accounts would be in order. But I will have to think > on this more. > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Mayeu M <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> I used ledger for some time now, and I have been lurking this ml for some >> years without seeing something similare on the ML. >> >> I manage the common expense between my girlfriend and me (like rent, >> food, car expenses, etc...), but I found my method suboptimal and I am >> wondering^Wpretty sure there is some easier/smarter way to handle it. >> >> So there is an explanation of my method. >> >> * I have a file containing my personnal ledger (personnal.ldg) >> * I have a file containing communal expenses (common.ldg) >> * I do not handle the personnal ledger of my girlfriend (nor she do). So >> the only view I have of her ledger, is a partial one through common.ldg >> * We do not have a common account, all of them are physicaly separated >> >> When she or I spend money, I had the details in common.ldg >> >> common.ldg--------------------------- >> 2013/10/10 Some shop >> Expenses:food 100€ >> Assets:Me >> >> 2013/10/11 Some shop 2 >> Expenses:food 200€ >> Assets:She >> --------------------------------------------- >> >> Then I create the following in my personnal.ldg >> >> personnal.ldg-------------------------- >> 2013/10/10 Some shop >> Expenses:common 50€ >> Liabilities:She 50€ >> Assets:My:Personnal:Account >> >> 2013/10/11 Some shop 2 >> Expenses:common 100€ >> Liabilities:She >> --------------------------------------------- >> >> With this I am able to compute the Liabilities:She account that show what >> I own her, or what she own me (depending of the sign). >> >> But these method too much drawback: >> * lot of work (for every transaction I have to create a new one in my >> personnal account) >> * error prone (need copy and calculation) >> * the two files are incompatible, so I do not have one unified ledger, I >> am forced to check multiple ledger to have all the info >> * When I do some report on my personnal account I have a big >> "Expense:common" account, and I am forced to go to the common.ldg file to >> get detailled report of those expenses. >> >> So I am wondering if there is some smarter, less error prone method to >> handle our communal expenses. And reducing my workload ;) >> >> Thank you for any thought and/or help on the subject ! >> >> -- >> Mayeu >> >> -- >> >> --- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ > enderw88.wordpress.com > > -- > > --- > 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. > -- --- 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.
