Hi Martin, A few quick points:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:33:02 -0700, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > > […] > 2016/01/01 * "Paying the rent" > Assets:Bank:Checking -1500 USD > Expenses:Rent 750 USD > Liabilities:Alice 750 USD >From Bob’s point of view, this is an asset, not a liability - Alice owes $750 >to Bob. Paying $1500 in rent transfers to $750 to expenses and the other $750 to a loan - an asset that is reduced when Alice pays back the loan, transferring the money from the loan asset to a bank account. > A solution which involves a joint account means two ledger files: one to > track Bob's personal balance sheet, and one to track the joint account. > Someone uses the joint account to pay for the rent and updates that file, > and Bob replicates his side of the transactions in his personal file. There is no reason not to track both of these accounts in the same file, in my opinion. The key question is, what answers do you want? Do you want to know what Bob’s expenses are? Do you want to know the state of Bob’s bank account? A joint bank account? How much Alice owes Bob (from Bob’s point of view, or Alice’s?) These should guide the transactions you enter. There is no “right” answer, no correct model. It depends on what you want to know. best, Erik -- Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>. -- --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
