Understood. Thanks for your answers Daniël and Craig.

On Monday, December 29, 2014 10:06:59 PM UTC-5, Daniel Bos wrote:
>
> If you're not depreciating the car (i.e., considering the purchase an 
> expense, instead of an investment), then technically, the sale is income. 
> However, in ledger you can draw from any account you wish, there are no 
> restrictions.
>
> Equity would be a reasonable choice.
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> Use an equity account instead of income. 
>>
>>
>> On Monday, December 29, 2014, zt <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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.
>>>
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