On 19.04.16,07:52, Sébastien Gross wrote:
Hi there,
This might be an ultra-classic use-case of ledger here I am facing.
Let's plot the scene:
- They have their own bank account (Alice and Bob) and a Join account
- Alice and Bob rent a flat ($1500/mo), which for some reasons is paid
by Bob from his own account (not for the Join one).
- Every month Alice wires half the rent ($750) to Bob's checking account
- Every month wire the rent to the owner
For clean readability I always use the following scheme:
(Assets|Income|Expenses|Liabilities|Equity):(Alice|Bob|Join):Account
I assume the following opening balances:
2016/01/01 * Opening balance
Assets:Bob:Bank:Checking $12345
Equity:Bob:Bank:Checking
2016/01/01 * Opening balance
Assets:Join:Bank:Checking $123
Equity:Join:Bank:Checking
This can be written as follow:
2016/01/01 Alice
Assets:Bob:Bank:Checking $750
Income:Bob:Alice:Rent
2016/01/01 Owner
Assets:Bob:Bank:Checking
Expenses:Bob:Rent $1500
The balance is then:
$ ./test.ledger bal
$11718 Assets
$11595 Bob:Bank:Checking
$123 Join:Bank:Checking
$-12468 Equity
$-12345 Bob:Bank:Checking
$-123 Join:Bank:Checking
$1500 Expenses:Bob:Rent
$-750 Income:Bob:Alice:Rent
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0
This is good and works fine but hides a few things:
a) Who pays the rent
b) If Alice made a mistake in the wire there is no way to check it
c) An extra income is shown for Bob which should disappear after bob
paid the rent
I would do this:
Make a separate file for each of the accounts including join with their
own euqity, assests, liabilities setup. Ledger can query all these as
one file. Then when Alice transfers money to Bob from her account it
should be visible as an Expense in her account. Then also use tags for
the transfers to describe what happens, like for Bob:
; Rent: Transfer from Alice March 2016
You can then separate what you need in your queries.
Jostein
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