> 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
You can do that, but you probably don’t need to be so specific in your personal account (as it’s already tracked in your house file): --- my_file ---- 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House expense €50 Assets:Bank:Checking ----------------- And in the other file: --- house_file ---- 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:Supply:Water €50 Person:Johann ------------------- Several other ideas to handle your files, up to you to decide how you want to handle it: You can merge both files and add a namespace in front of the first: Either you want to have everything in one file: ---- single_file ---- 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House expense €50 Assets:Bank:Checking 2017/12/05 * Water bill House:Expenses:Supply:Water €50 House:Person:Johann --------------------- Problem: your personal accounting is in the middle of your house accounting Multiple files merged (my preferred one) --- my_file ---- apply account House !include house_file end apply account 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:House expense €50 Assets:Bank:Checking ----------------- --- house_file ---- 2017/12/05 * Water bill Expenses:Supply:Water €50 Person:Johann ------------------- It is in practice equivalent to the previous one (it prepends all your house expenses by "House"), but it’s possibly easier to edit (no need to append it manually), and you can share this file with other persons in House: It only contains the house expenses and is separate from your own. (one drawback: if you print register, it’s not sorted by date correctly unless asked explicitely) Then, if you want to know how to rebalance your account with other house inhabitants: ledger --current --flat bal 'House:Person:' And if you want to check that you didn’t forget some transactions in your files: ledger --format '%/%T' --current bal "^Expenses:House expense\$" "^House:Person:Johann\$" should give you 0 Hope it helps. Cheers, -- Ismael -- --- 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.
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