Were you able to find a workaround for this? I am running into the same issues with this use case.
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 08:22:39 UTC-5, Jakob Mattsson wrote: > > Hi! > > I've read up on the valuation function, but it doesn't seem to behave the > way the documentation is describing it. > > I have this for example: > > P 2016-01-01 £ 1.2 $ > P 2016-01-05 £ 1.4 $ > > 2016-01-03 > SomeAsset £ -100 > SomeExpense £ 100 > > Now, running ledger balance -X $ gives me > > $ -140 SomeAsset > > $ 140 SomeExpense > > > Just as the documentation mentions, I don't want the expense to be > re-valuated to $140 on the fifth; I want it to remain $120, which was the > price is $ at the time of the purchase. So, to quote the docs: > > > *Or how about never re-valuating commodities used in Expenses, since they > cannot have a different future value:* > > *= /^Expenses:/* > > * ; VALUE:: market(amount, post.date, exchange)* > > *This says the future valuation is the same as the valuation at the time > of posting. post.date equals the posting’s date, while just ’date’ is the > value of --now DATE (defaults to today).* > > > > Ok, so I try this inline, to make it as simple as possible: > > P 2016-01-01 £ 1.2 $ > P 2016-01-05 £ 1.4 $ > > 2016-01-03 > SomeAsset £ -100 > SomeExpense £ 100; VALUE:: market(amount, post.date, exchange) > > Now running ledger balance -X $ gives me: > > $ -140 SomeAsset > > $ 12000 SomeExpense > > The expense has clearly been computed using 1.2 rather than 1.4, which is > what I wanted, but it's 100 times too large! Why? I've been fiddling with > this for quite a while now and can't understand what is going on. > > Thanks you all! > > -- --- 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.
