Hi, I'm trying to break my ledger journal into multiple files to try and
reduce my scrolling everytime I need to add a new transaction.
Before I had an accounts.ldgr file with my periodic transactions at the
very top and every posting just laid chronologically afterwards, with a
comment indicating the beginning of each month.
I then migrated to having a folder called 2015 with 01-12.ldgr files for
each month and a settings.ldgr for my periodic transactions and outside of
that folder I have a 2015.ldgr file with the following content:
include ./2015/settings.ldgr
include ./2015/[0-9]{2}.ldgr
I then tried running a few reports and it seems that --budget is not
working properly, this is what I get when running:
ledger -p "this year" -f ./2015.ldgr reg ^expenses:food --monthly --budget
15-Jan-01 - 15-Jan-31 expenses:food £203.78
£203.78
15-Feb-01 - 15-Feb-28 expenses:food £325.08
£528.86
15-Mar-01 - 15-Mar-31 expenses:food £284.91
£813.77
15-Apr-01 - 15-Apr-30 expenses:food £-40.18
£773.59
15-May-01 - 15-May-31 expenses:food £-9.39
£764.20
15-Jun-01 - 15-Jun-30 expenses:food £125.58
£889.78
15-Jul-01 - 15-Jul-31 expenses:food £65.33
£955.11
15-Aug-01 - 15-Aug-31 expenses:food £-157.90
£797.21
15-Sep-01 - 15-Sep-30 expenses:food £-36.23
£760.98
15-Oct-01 - 15-Oct-31 expenses:food £-141.48
£619.50
15-Nov-01 - 15-Nov-30 expenses:food £84.94
£704.44
15-Dec-01 - 15-Dec-31 expenses:food £-90.43
£614.01
But if I run it against my single accounts.ldgr file I get:
ledger -p "this year" -f ./accounts.ldgr reg ^expenses:food --monthly
--budget
15-Jan-01 - 15-Jan-31 expenses:food £-146.22
£-146.22
15-Feb-01 - 15-Feb-28 expenses:food £-24.92
£-171.14
15-Mar-01 - 15-Mar-31 expenses:food £-65.09
£-236.23
15-Apr-01 - 15-Apr-30 expenses:food £-40.18
£-276.41
15-May-01 - 15-May-31 expenses:food £-9.39
£-285.80
15-Jun-01 - 15-Jun-30 expenses:food £125.58
£-160.22
15-Jul-01 - 15-Jul-31 expenses:food £65.33
£-94.89
15-Aug-01 - 15-Aug-31 expenses:food £-157.90
£-252.79
15-Sep-01 - 15-Sep-30 expenses:food £-36.23
£-289.02
15-Oct-01 - 15-Oct-31 expenses:food £-141.48
£-430.50
15-Nov-01 - 15-Nov-30 expenses:food £84.94
£-345.56
15-Dec-01 - 15-Dec-31 expenses:food £-90.43
£-435.99
If you look closely, the multi-file version is not matching Jan, Feb and
March's expenses against my budget, instead it's showing the total expense.
Any idea why this would happen?
If I run a balance for each month I get the same results on both settings,
which is:
ledger -f ./2015.ldgr bal ^expenses:food -p <month>
jan £203.78 expenses:food
feb £325.08 expenses:food
mar £284.91 expenses:food
apr £309.82 expenses:food
may £340.61 expenses:food
jun £475.58 expenses:food
jul £415.33 expenses:food
aug £192.10 expenses:food
sep £313.77 expenses:food
oct £208.52 expenses:food
nov £434.94 expenses:food
dec £259.57 expenses:food
I don't mind keeping this file as a single one now, since the year is
nearly over and this was my first year using Ledger, but I would like to
make next year's journalling more effective and possibly more smart as well.
TIA,
Leo.
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