Dear John, dear Craig, thanks for the answers. Apologies for these starter questions, I am fairly new to ledger. One additional question regarding ledger I have though regarding scheduled transactions: Are you talking about auxiliary dates or writing transactions in the future? In these cases this method would be of little use for me as I oftentime don't know exactly when certain Liabilities have to be met.
Best regards, Philipp Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2015 00:17:14 UTC+1 schrieb Phil Gee: > > Hi all, > > I have a new question: > > Currently I would like to optimize my Journal File so that monthly > liabilities do not need to be written every month. Thus my former > "preamble" of the Journal file: > > 2015/01/01 * Opening balances for January 2015 > Assets:Checking €2500.00 > Liabilities:MasterCard €-200 > Liabilities:Savings €-250.00 > Liabilities:Rent €-600.00 > Liabilities:Loan €-120.00 > Equity > > I have changed to this one: > > ~ Monthly from 2014/12/01 > Liabilities:Savings €-250.00 > Liabilities:Rent €-600.00 > Liabilities:Loan €-120.00 > Assets > 2015/01/01 * Opening balances for January 2015 > Assets:Checking €2500 > Liabilities:MasterCard €-200 > Equity > > Lets say, that I had a later transaction where I payed my rent: > > 2015/01/10 * Rent > Liabilities:Rent €600.00 > Assets:Checking > > If I check the Balance reports, I get for the first version this one: > €1900.00 Assets:Checking > €-1330.00 Equity > €-570.00 Liabilities > €-120.00 Loan > €-200.00 MasterCard > €-250.00 Savings > -------------------- > 0 > > but for the second version that one: > > €1900.00 Assets:Checking > €-2300.00 Equity > €400.00 Liabilities > €-200.00 MasterCard > €600.00 Rent > -------------------- > 0 > > Thus though I see that I spent my rent the monthly liabilities are not > expressed in the report. Can someone tell me where I make an error? > > Best, > > Philipp > -- --- 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.
