Great, thanks. I think it's just a question of me getting a hang of the terminology.
On 22 March 2018 at 14:31, Dániel Fancsali <fancs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Dan, > > Well, there are several ways you can do this, actually. Even looking at > your example, it kind of suggests a way of doing this. Categories, or > "accounts" in beancounter-speak can be hierarchical, so you could do: > > Expenses:Rent:Property A > Expenses:Rent:Property B > Expenses:Mortgage:Property A > Expenses:Mortgage:Property B > > However, to do it properly, you probably need to differentiate "financial > categories" and "labels". (Which are called accounts and tags in > ledger-speak) > > So, you'd do something like: > 2017-01-01 Mortgage Payment for Property A > ; Property: A > Expenses:Mortgatge £1000 > Assets:Current Account > > 2017-02-02 Rent Income for Property B > ; Property: B > Assets:Current Account £1000 > Income:Rent > > ... > > And then you can use the --pivot TAG feature to generate a report pivoted > around the tags, but still having proper, meaningful categories in > accounting terms: > > ledger bal -f my.dat --pivot Property --period 2017 > > Property > £1000 PropertyA:Income:Rent > £1000 PropertyB:Income:Rent > £1000 PropertyA:Expenses:Mortgage > £1000 PropertyB:Expenses:Mortgage > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 13:09 Daniel Scott <danieljamessc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Hopefully a simple question. I'm looking for something to help with my >> taxes. >> >> I need to add multiple categories to each transaction, and then generate >> a report for an arbitrary period which shows the total in each category. >> For example: >> >> 1/1/2017 £10 rent,property,propertyA >> 1/1/2017 £10 rent,property,propertyB >> 1/1/2017 -£10 rent,home,holiday >> 1/2/2017 -£10 mortgage,property,propertyA >> 1/2/2017 -£10 mortgage,property,propertyB >> >> Then the report(s) would let me answer, for example: >> >> Total rent for propertyA in 2017 >> Total rent for propertyB in the first half of 2017 >> Total property rent in 2017 and 2018 >> Overall profit/loss for propertyA >> Overall profit/loss for all properties >> >> Can ledger do this? It seems more like it's useful for reconciling >> accounts which maintain a running total, but I'm looking for something >> which essentially starts at 0 for the time period that I'm interested in. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> >> --- >> 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. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/ledger-cli/m-lTlT2-nDI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- 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.
