Use an equity account instead of income. On Monday, December 29, 2014, zt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just started using ledger and want to find out how to represent the sale > of my car. This is a personal car and do not care about depreciation etc. > Let's assume that I got $5K when I sold the car and the buyer wrote me a > check which I deposited in my bank account. > > This is how I have it right now: > > 2014/08/25 * Deposit: $5K Car sale > Income:Misc:UnknownDeposit $ > -5000.0 > Assets:Bank:Personal $ > 5000.0 > > > The problem is that my income is now inflated. Really all I want to do it > increase my personal asset without affecting my income. Is income the only > account that I can use to track money coming in? Please let me know the > best way to handle this situation. > > -- > > --- > 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.
