Ah great. And how do you generate the list of rows in your table (ie, ensure you aren't forgetting some important buckets)? Just make sure to only use a consistent and fixed set of top level expense categories?
--dave On Aug 28, 2015 2:35 AM, "Alan Schmitt" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-08-27 16:58, David Glasser <[email protected]> writes: > > > How do your buckets interact with the actual location of the funds? Ie, > when > > you say that your income goes to the unallocated bucket, does it not > also go > > to the actual bank account it is in? Are you using virtual accounts or > tags or > > something? > > This is my setup (which is copied from many sources): > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > = expr (date>=[2014] and account =~ /^Expenses:/) > Bucket:$account -1 > Total Buckets 1 > > = expr (date>=[2014] and account =~ /^Income:/) > Bucket:Unallocated:EUR -1 > Total Buckets 1 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > So when I enter some expense transaction, it gets: > - added to the expense account explicitly > - removed from the bank account explicitly > - removed from the expense bucket by the rule above > - added to “Total Buckets” to keep things equal to 0 by the rule > > When I enter some income, it gets: > - removed from the income bucket explicitly > - added to the bank account explicitly > - added to the unallocated bucket by the rule > - removed from “Total Buckets” by the rule > > The budget transaction moves money from the unallocated bucket to the > expense buckets. > > So I track my money in three places (I don’t count the “Total Bucket”): > - bank accounts, that show where the money is > - expense and income accounts, which show the collated expenses and > income > - expense buckets and the unallocated bucket (as well as some savings > bucket) that show what the money is meant for > > Is it clearer? > > Best, > > Alan > > -- > OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 > Last week athmospheric CO₂ average (Updated August 17, 2015, Mauna Loa > Obs.): > 398.19 ppm > -- --- 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.
