Thank you David for your response. It seems to be very close of what I
was doing, but more elegantly and flexible!
Still, there is one caveat:
> You can create a transaction to record the debt in your personal ledger:
>
> 2013/10/02 Grocery Shopping
> Assets:Debit Card -$100.00
> Expenses:Groceries $50.00 ; My Groceries
> Assets:Accounts Receivable:GF $50.00 ; GF's Groceries
As I stated in my previous mail (but I apparently send it almost at
the times as your, so you may have miss it!), this only reflect half
the joint expenses. What I am trying to do is to be able to follow our
common full expenses (budgeting them etc...), and at the same time
managing my personnal ledger.
Thank you anyway for your insight (and the inspiration for better
account name in my ledger!) :)
I may have come up with a somehow good solution with a virtual
liability account :
ledger.ldg---------------------------------------------
; My transaction exemple
2013/10/10 Some shop
Joint:Expenses:food 100€ ; Full representation of
the joint expenses
Assets:My:Personnal:Account ; Full expenses on my account
(Liabilities:She) 50€ ; Half of the
money she own me
; Her transaction
2013/10/11 Some shop 2
Joint:Expenses:food 200€ ; Full representation of
the joint expenses
She:Assets ; Her joint fake
account I do not manage
(Liabilities:She) -100€ ; I own her half the money
; Balancing the money I own her
2013/10/12 She
She:Assets 50€
Assets:My:Personnal:Account ; The money go out of my account
(Liabilities:She) =0 ; Reseting the
liability account
-------------------------------------------------------------
With this I can track precisely and fully our common expenses, and
when the owned money is balanced, I got the same account balance with
or without the --real option.
The only caveats is that using --real when she or I own money make the
liability not visible. But I am not sure it is a problem. Since I do
not really see case where I will want to only print real transaction
and not the virtual one (since this is the only virtual account I have
in my ledger).
What do you thinks of this solution? Do you see caveats I did not think about?
Thank you for all your answers :)
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