Am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2017 15:06:41 UTC+1 schrieb Ismaël Bouya: > > > 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:' >
I decided that I do not care that much where my money comes from when paying for Housing expenses. What I did not like on your proposal was that I now have to keep tracking in two ledgers expenses I pay. So I came up with this solution and unless somebody tells me the drawback I will go with that: ; central personal ledger file = /Person:Johann/ [Assets] 1 [$account] -1 apply account House include Haus.ledger end applay account By having this rule, My assets always reflect my "wealth" and I do not have to track house expenses twice. > 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.