On 15 January 2014 01:22, Kaito Michishige <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to move away from YNAB due to its dependency on Adobe AIR, and > the fact that running it on Linux just gets harder over time. However, I'm > really fond of YNAB's budgeting model, which I like to call the "bucket > model". Essentially, every time you acquire some money, you register the > income, and then pour this money into "budget buckets". Each bucket > corresponds to an expense category. Every time you spend money in that > category, you "take" money from the corresponding bucket. > > I was thinking that I could just subdivide my accounts like > "Assets:Checking:Food", and then query "Assets:Checking" for an overall > balance, along with the balance of each "bucket". The issue I'm facing is > tracking the cash I carry around, which would not be in "Assets:Checking", > but in "Assets:Cash" instead. For petty expenses, I can just assign it to > "Expenses:Cash", and treat it as spent, but I often withdraw money to pay > for non-trivial things, such as dining at a place that doesn't accept cards. > YNAB "solves" this by keeping the buckets and accounts separate, but I'm not > sure if I can do the same with Ledger. I was thinking virtual transactions > and accounts might help me solve it, but I'm having trouble visualizing a > solution. > > Unfortunately, the built-in budget model using periodical expenses doesn't > suit me, since my income and expenses vary wildly month to month. > I would use virtual transactions, have a look at the following blog post to get some ideas on how someone else did it.
http://www.petekeen.net/program-your-finances-automated-transactions Cheers, Pete -- --- 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.
