On 1/4/16 2:15 PM, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> writes: > >> Stay away from virtual postings, they break the accounting equation. You >> never need to use them, period. > > I disagree with this statement. I've used them to good effect in the past. > There are times when you need a bit of flexibility to get exactly the kind of > reports you want. It's not all about accounting, or honoring the accounting > equation; it's about managing finances the way a Ledger user wants to. I think > this pretty much sums up the core philosophical divide between beancount and > Ledger.
So this is interesting timing, I was thinking of using virtual postings to track budget amounts. Specifically, when I have a credit card expense, I have a posting such as: 2016/01/01 Fix the thing Expenses:Thing $20.00 Liabilities:Credit Card:Pursuit $-20.00 What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in something additional: 2016/01/01 Fix the thing Expenses:Thing $20.00 Liabilities:Credit Card:Pursuit $-20.00 Budget:Pursuit $20.00 Assests:Checking $-20.00 So that way I can see what my checking balance will be when I pay the bill for the Pursuit card. This way I can see the balance of the checking account afterwards. I can't see it before, which is annoying. And, when I pay off the bill (directly from Checking), I have to go back and delete all those additional lines. Ugh. So, I was thinking why not use virtual postings? Or is there a better way? Thanks to John for such a cool tool, and Martin for having an alternative. -=Doug -- --- 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.