* Mark Scannell <mesca...@gmail.com> [2016-01-03 05:40]: > I was thinking of that, and I may use alias' as I have a lot of > abbreviations. The challenge is that I have my partner's books, my > books, and then our joint books. As our finances are gradually being > treated as one, I'd like to be able to have Assets -> mine, Assets > -> hers, Assets -> ours, Expenses -> mine|hers|ours, etc.
This is something I need to solve as well and I haven't come up with a solution yet that I'm 100% happy with. I've changed the title of the thread. What I came up with so far is this: - For joint accounts, just use a normal Assets: account, e.g. Assets:Savings:Bank - For individual accounts (e.g. credit cards on a person's name) or accounts at the same bank due to historical reasons, add the name of the person to the account name, e.g. Assets:Savings:Bank Martin - I don't think a general Assets:Martin: makes sense because that defeats th whole purpose of combining finances (it's no longer "yours" vs "theirs" when you're married). - However, there are some things that belong to a specific person. Specifically, I track frequent flyer miles and other reward points and for that I created Assets:Rewards:Martin since a) all those rewards accounts are for a specific person and b) usually both people have the same accounts. I don't think this scheme is ideal since it's inconsistent (Assets:Rewards:Martin vs Assets:Savings:Bank Martin instead of Assets:Savings:Martin:Bank) but unfortunately I cannot think of a cleaner solution. Furthermore, while in the US you can do joint tax returns, this is not how it works in many other countries. So I still have to know income for each person. I guess I could look for 'Income:' on accounts with 'Martin' in the name. But maybe a cleaner solution would be account meta tags [1] which would allow me to define an owner. Also, I think my idea of re-write rules / ledger views [1] would come in really useful here to define a view that separates stuff out by person again. Unfortunately this is not possible with leader at the moment (I guess a beancount plug-in would be possible). I'd like to hear how other people manage this. [1] http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070 [2] http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714 -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
