> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:45:19 -0800 (PST) > From: Johann Höchtl <[email protected]> > > I discovered the excellent guide on how to structure shared expenses > https://mumble.net/~campbell/2017/02/26/ledger/HOWTO-sharedexpense > and extended it so that a transaction keyword can be used to declare which > expenses to share and which not. See the gist here: > > https://gist.github.com/the42/52f2be2874cf7158f2496dba9a2a21ae
Cool, glad to see you found that useful! > However, this isn't doing exactly I want it to do. > > First: This ledger file is mine. If I would not work with shared expenses, > I would pay things like Expenses:Housing ... out of Assets:Bank:Checking or > Liability:Mastercard instead of Person:Johann. > > [...] > > How can I continue to have an overview who owns whom what amount when > mixing shared and non-shared expenses? One way you can do this is by just keeping two separate ledgers -- one from the perspective of the house, and one from your individual perspective. That way you can use HOWTO-sharedexpense verbatim, and you can also hand off the ledger to the next treasurer of the house. If you really want to keep it in one ledger with your personal finances, you might be able to use two separate account trees in a single ledger: one for the house's accounts, and one for your individual accounts. You can switch between them using `apply account / end apply account'. I haven't worked out the details -- you may have to figure out what happens with the house Person:Johann account and maybe either alias it to or balance it with transactions to your personal accounts Assets:Reimbursements:House or Liabilities:House or something. -- --- 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.
