Hi,
Not trying to use ledger-cli for portfolio tracking, but as a reporting
tool for accounting books, but I have a situation here that I am trying to
resolve.
Here's the original state:
2016/09/10
Assets:Shares:SomeBroker 3000 "A68U"
Assets:Savings:SomeBank $899.53
Equity:Opening Balances
Which is OK, and gives rise of course to this *balance*:
$799.53
3000 A68U Assets
$799.53 Savings:SomeBank
3000 A68U Shares:SomeBroker
$-799.53
-3000 A68U Equity:Opening Balances
--------------------
0
If we make a stock purchase transaction:
2017/03/30
Assets:Shares:SomeBroker 870 "A68U" @ $0.919
Assets:Savings:SomeBank -$799.53
The balance report then gives:
3870 A68U Assets:Shares:SomeBroker
$-799.53
-3000 A68U Equity:Opening Balances
--------------------
$-799.53
870 A68U
What can we usually do to get Asset = Equity (disregarding Liability for
clarity's sake) without getting the difference here? Is that something that
anyone will want? I do know that if I do -V it gives me this:
$3556.53 Assets:Shares:SomeBroker
$-3556.53 Equity:Opening Balances
--------------------
0
Just want to check if I am missing anything here. And if there's a better
way to do this with multiple commodities.
Thanks,
Vito
On Friday, 24 April 2009 19:35:47 UTC+8, Tim Docker wrote:
>
> a stock purchase/sale. Is there a convention for this?
>
> The ledger sample file shows 50 AAPL @ $30, but in that case it's
> credited against "Equity", and the manual suggests that the Equity
> account should be reserved for initial balances.
>
> Should I have a new top level account for the market(ie different
> to Equity,Assets,Income, and Expenses)? ie something like:
>
>
> 2004/05/01 * Investment balance
> Assets:Brokerage 50 AAPL @ $30.00
> Market:Stock
>
> This doesn't feel quite right. What do others do? I guess the
> approach would be the same for the purchase of any asset which
> has ongoing value.
>
> Also, is it possible to get the dollars paid and shared received
> to go to separate sub accounts? I could do something like:
>
> 2004/05/01 * Investment balance
> Assets:Stocks 50 AAPL @ $30.00
> Assets:Stocks $1500
> Assets:Trading Account $-1500
> Market:Stock
>
> but it seems messy to have to manually calculate the transfer
> amount.
>
> Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Tim
>
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