Hi all, I'm trying to generate reports for an account which has transactions in different currencies, and I stuck.
Here is a simplified example: Prices: P 2017/03/01 00:00:00 £ 3.0 € P 2017/04/01 00:00:00 £ 2.0 € P 2017/05/01 00:00:00 £ 1.0 € Transactions: 2017-01-01 Assets:Checking €100 Equity:Opening Balances 2017-03-01 ; 1£ = 3.0 € Expenses:Food £30 ; it was €90 that day Assets:Checking 2017-04-01 ; 1£ = 2.0 € Expenses:Food £5 ; it was €10 that day Assets:Checking # all €100 are spent at this moment Now how do I run *balance* and *register* reports to get *Assets:Checking=0 *at the end? How to configure it to use effective price at the day of transaction? The point is, the money were already withdrawn from the checking account using an effective exchange rate, there is no need to re-calculate anything using today's rate, it's just too late. To be specific, Assets:Checking should be calculated as 100€ - 90€ - 10€ = 0€. What I tried: *1) balance:* $ ledger --file ledger.dat --price-db price.db bal -X € €65 Assets:Checking €-100 Equity:Opening Balances €35 Expenses:Food Obviously, it's recalculated using today's price. *2) register:* $ ledger --file ledger.dat --price-db price.db reg -X € Assets 17-Jan-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €100 €100 17-Mar-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €-90 €10 17-Apr-01 Commodities revalued <Revalued> €30 €40 17-Apr-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €-10 €30 17-May-01 Commodities revalued <Revalued> €35 €65 Again, today's rate is used *3) tried '--no-revalued':* $ ledger --file ledger.dat --price-db price.db reg -X € Assets --no-revalued 17-Jan-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €100 €100 17-Mar-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €-90 €10 17-Apr-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €-10 €30 Nope, "Revalued" transactions are just hidden, but Assets:Checking is still revalued. *4) here is the -J report:* $ ledger --file ledger.dat --price-db price.db reg -X € Assets --no-revalued -J 2017-01-01 100 2017-03-01 10 2017-04-01 30 Unsurprisingly, it's not a 0 again. *5) Now, I decided to try some solution from the tutorial <http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Commodity-reporting>:* > 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) I hoped it could be what I needed. I added the following: = /^Assets:Checking/ ; VALUE:: market(amount, post.date, exchange) However, things got even worse: 5.1) $ ledger --file ledger.dat --price-db price.db bal -X € €2850 Assets:Checking €-100 Equity:Opening Balances €35 Expenses:Food Where did these €2850 come from? 5.2) $ ledger --file ledger.dat --price-db price.db reg -X € Assets 17-Jan-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €100 €100 17-Mar-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €2700 €2800 17-Apr-01 <Unspecified payee> Assets:Checking €50 €2850 Same question... I am probably missing something obvious here. I'd really appreciate if anybody could help me with this. Thanks in advance! -- --- 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.
