El miércoles, 15 de enero de 2014 00:58:46 UTC, Peter Ross escribió: > > On 15 January 2014 01:22, Kaito Michishige <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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 >
Thanks, Pete That seems to be the most practical solution. However, it seems that archiving ledger files runs into issues with virtual transactions. Would the only way to make this work be to do "ledger --real equity", and then move virtual funds around in the new file afterwards? -- --- 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.
