Hi Ella, I think you’re missing something important in your workflow. Your income should be the net gain: At some point, you bought something to start with (or farmed/found them, which should(?) be seen as the same as buying them for $0):
2018/03/21 farm
inventory:farm 5 cabbage @ $0
cash
Those cabbage grow into a salad:
2018/03/21 farm
inventory:plant 2 salad @ $0
inventory:farm -5 cabbage {$0} @ $0
And you sell that salad:
2018/03/21 farm
cash $4
inventory:plant -2 salad {$0} @ $0
income:farm
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Now let’s be a little more complete (you’ll adapt it to your need)
You buy 6 cabbage at $1 each
2018/03/21 farm
inventory:farm 6 cabbage @ $1
cash
Each of your cabbage is priced $1, and you spend $6.
You farm them, you need 2 cabbages to make one salad (I’m not a farmer
maybe it doesn’t exist :p ), but a pair of them is lost:
2018/03/21 farm
inventory:plant 2 salad
inventory:farm -6 cabbage
expenses:farm loss 2 cabbage
Then you sell those two salad (each costed 2 cabbages, i.e. $2), at $5 each:
2018/03/21 farm
cash $10
inventory:plant -2 salad @ $2
income:farming
You end up with a $6 net income ($10 - $4 cost), and $4 in your pocket
$ ledger bal:
$4 cash
$-6 income:farming
2 cabbage expenses:farm loss
if you want to track the losses in terms of cash, just add costs ("@")
in the middle one:
2018/03/21 farm
inventory:plant 2 salad @ $2
inventory:farm -6 cabbage @ $1
expenses:farm loss
$ ledger bal:
$4 cash
$-6 income:farming
$2 expenses:farm loss
Hope it helps/answer your questions
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