On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 6:12 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If you like, you can also use a plugin that auto-declares all the > accounts > > for you. > > At the top of the file, try adding > > > > plugin "beancount.plugins.auto_accounts" > > Nope, as expected this isn't my issue. > > >> I have regular backups of my gnucash accounts, and am not averse to > >> modifying them to fit the beancount model. What I am averse to is > >> jumping straight in and abandoning a system I use daily with a > >> conversion which isn't repeatable. Anyone have any experience/ideas on > >> what to do? Would it be sufficient for me to (in gnucash) move > >> everything to Equity etc. base accounts? > > > > Which root accounts you have? > > > > You can customize the names of your root accounts. > > See the name_* options in > > http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/options > > > > If you have other root accounts, you could also choose a particular > category > > for them, or if you feel that no category is a fit, put them under > Equity: > > ... ; ultimately, choosing one of the four (Assets, Liabilities, Income, > > Expenses) categories allows you to build balance sheets and income > > statements, it's good practice. If you need help selecting a category, > feel > > free to email the group. > > I have the following root accounts > Banking > Cash > Equity > Expenses > Expired Accounts (due to how gnucash shows accounts, I move closed > accounts here so they still balance but aren't in my main view) > In Beancount you could just leave those where they are; you can mark accounts as closed on a particular date with a Close directive and the reporting won't include the account if the reporting period doesn't overlap with its lifetime. > Income > Investments > Loans > > More than five, so do I have to reshuffle things in gnucash? As I > understand it, this is how it'd look:- > Assets <- Banking, Cash, Investments, Expired Accounts > Equity <- Equity > Expenses <- Expenses > Income <- Income > Liabilities <- Loans > That seems sensible to me. You should probably rejigger your account names in your conversion scripts instead of messing with your Gnucash input, that's probably safer (my experience with Gnucash is that it's so brittle that anything unusual will break it, so I won't suggest you try). > My assumption is that I can't have multiple > option "name_assets" ** > lines? Nope. -- --- 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.
