> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:21:03 +0000 > From: Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> > > > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Johann Höchtl <[email protected]> > > > > 2018-02-04 * TV set delivery > > Deposit:Electronics $250 > > Assets:Banking -$250 > > Expenses:Electronics > > Deposit:Electronics = $0 > > This is reasonable for accrual-based accounting, though I would put > Deposits under Assets, Assets:Deposits:Electronics (or even a more > detailed Assets:Deposits:ACME Vendor, Inc.:20180104 to separate it > from other deposits), since presumably if you don't make the second > payment then the vendor is obligated to return the funds, so they > count toward your assets until you commit with the second payment.
This can also be simplified a little bit: just draw from the deposit and your bank simultaneously, rather than adding to the deposit and then subtracting from it: 2018-02-04 TV set delivery Expenses:Electronics $1050 Assets:Banking $-250 Deposit:Electronics $-800 = $0 (Both the negative amounts are omissible too, I think, though the redundancy doesn't hurt for error-checking.) -- --- 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.
