Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 23:03:13 UTC+1 schrieb Taylor R Campbell: > > > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:45:19 -0800 (PST) > > From: Johann Höchtl <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > > 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. > I am really new to "personal" accounting and ledger-cli in particular. But that would mean that these two ledgers are physically and logically separated? So if I pay the water bill I would have
* in my very personal ledger eg. 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House:Supply:Water €50 Assets:Bank:Checking * in the shared ledger (https://mumble.net/~campbell/2017/02/26/ledger/HOWTO-sharedexpense) eg. 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House:Supply:Water €50 Person:Johann > 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. > So basically you mean: 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House:Supply:Water €50 Person:Johann -1 Person:Johann 1 Assets:Bank:Checking Is there a "shortcut" to express 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House:Supply:Water €50 Person:Johann=Assets:Bank:Checking I would rather not include the rule where to draw assets into Person:Johann in the automatic transaction as I will pay expenses out from Checking, Credit Card or maybe cash -- --- 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.
