OK, thanks. The problem with the approach you suggest, though, is that I still want to set actual categories (e.g. Expenses:Shopping:Software) on all purchases, I just don't necessarily want a separate budget for each category. I suppose I can have sub-accounts of Expenses:Misc, but then I lose the flexibility of later introducing a budget for a previously miscellaneous account. Plus "Misc" isn't really intrinsic to the transaction, but an artifact of the budget.
I could always construct complicated queries to find the transactions in question, I was just hoping there was an easier way. Anyway, thanks for the help! Dave On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:24:48 PM UTC-7, Craig Earls wrote: > > The best way is the most explicit: > > ~ Monthly > Expenses:Home:Rent $765.00 > Expenses:Food:Groceries $300.00 > Expenses:Food $200.00 > Expenses:Misc $900.00 > Assets > > Then just look for Expenses:Misc. > > There was a long discussion here some time ago about whether to allow > balances in accounts that had children. ledger allows it, but my > opinion was that it would hold you back from questions exactly like > what you just asked. > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Dave Wells <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to Ledger and had a quick question: Is it possible to retrieve > the > > transactions that contribute to a particular budget category? For > example, > > let's say I've got the following budgets: > > > > ~ Monthly > > Expenses:Home:Rent $765.00 > > Expenses:Food:Groceries $300.00 > > Expenses:Food $200.00 > > Expenses $900.00 > > Assets > > > > So, Expenses is a catch-all category for otherwise unbudgeted > transactions. > > Can I easily see what expenses fall into that category (say for this > month)? > > The hacky way I found was to comment out the 'Expenses' budget and use > the > > --unbudgeted flag. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > -- > > > > --- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > 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/d/optout.
