I use the scheduled transaction feature of ledger-mode to load up my expected transactions for the near future. As the real transactions come in I delete/update the prediction.
On Monday, November 17, 2014, Harpreet Sangha <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ledger-cli%[email protected]');> > . > 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.
