Sounds like I'm missing out as a Vim user. ;-) Thanks for pointing this out, though.
- Harpreet "Eli" Sangha On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. >> 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. > -- --- 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.
