Apologies for the misleading title, at first I thought it was a --budget
issue, but after halfway through writing it I realised it was a include
thing, but I forgot to update the subject.
On Sunday, 27 December 2015 13:43:15 UTC, Leonardo Melo wrote:
>
> 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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