Mark Scannell <[email protected]> writes:
> 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.
Pete Keen described a way to use Ledger's “virtual transactions” and
“automated transactions” to maintain a split such as you describe, while
allowing the split to be conflated when needing to deal with the “real”
transactions.
Some people decide to do this by dividing the bills up between
roommates. […] Other roommates decide to nominate one person to have
all of the bills in their name and post the amounts due every month
for everyone to see. This is what my girlfriend and have been doing
and it's been working great. All of the bills are in my name and I
give her a summary every month and she hands me a check. Easy peasy.
[…] Ledger has an extremely handy feature named automated
transactions. The basic idea is that you provide a template
transaction and a pattern to match, and ledger will insert the
filled-in template transaction every time the pattern matches.
[…] For various reasons I keep most of my money in [one real
account]. I have most of it allocated away into various "funds",
which are just fake buckets that only exist for me. […] I've
implemented these buckets using ledger's virtual transaction
feature.
[…] On their own, these two features are pretty useful. It's when
you combine them that the awesome power of ledger starts appearing.
<URL:https://www.petekeen.net/program-your-finances-automated-transactions>
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