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
>
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