On Saturday, May 17, 2014 6:04:26 PM UTC-7, Martin Blais wrote:
> It would be useful to build a list of real-world use cases of virtual
> postings and see if they can all be solved without or not - make a
> compelling argument about the need for virtual postings.
>
I am just getting started with Ledger and hit the issue that originally
started this thread. Basically, I'm trying to use virtual transactions for
budget reasons, to spread the cost of something over time. For example:
2014/06/17 Awesome Trip
Expenses:Travel $1000.00
[Expenses:Travel] $-1000.00
[Assets:Reimbursements:Vacation] $1000.00
Assets:Cash:Checking $-1000.00
; Pay down balance of Assets:Reimbursements:Vacation over time
2014/07/01 Awesome Trip
[Expenses:Travel] $100.00
[Assets:Reimbursements:Vacation] $-100.00
2014/08/01 Awesome Trip
[Expenses:Travel] $100.00
[Assets:Reimbursements:Vacation] $-100.00
; etc.
For this use case, real and virtual make a lot of sense to me: --real shows
when I actually spent the money, but omitting --real lets me virtually
spread the cost and work within my budgets. But since Expenses:Travel has
both real and virtual postings, the budget report (ledger --budget
--monthly register ^expenses) only works with --real, which defeats the
whole purpose.
I believe that in this case I could use effective dates, but that would
quickly get tiresome if there are many smaller transactions rather than a
single big one as above; I prefer to be able to toss the expenses into a
bucket and then pay it down as I can. Since I'm strictly using balanced
virtual transactions I think tags would work here, but would love some
feedback.
Any tips would be much appreciated!
Dave
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