I'm curious to know how people use Ledger for paycheck budgeting and forecasting...
Ideally, I'd like to enter my paycheck as an itemized, recurring transaction with each posting in the form of a expression that allow calculating how much to deposit into account based it's YTD balance. This would be useful, for example, with taxes for which withholding amounts vary based on YTD earnings and retirement contributions that have YTD maximums. To my knowledge, achieving this with automatic transactions is not possible, but I'm optimistic that it can be achieved, if necessary, with embedded python scripts. Before I go down that road, though, I'd like to know what other, more experienced users of Ledger do. My goal, as the the subject suggests, is to allow me to budget and forecast. The obvious "simple" solution seems to be to simply manually enter known future transaction, taking the tax withholding and retirement contributions into consideration. This approach, however, requires manual maintenance of each and ever forecasted transaction when factors change (i.e. bonus pay differs from estimated amount, W-4 change, contributions change, etc.). I look forward to any feedback. Thanks in advance! -- --- 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.
