You could also use effective dates for that:
2018-01-04 TV Set purchase
Expenses:Electronics. $1050
* Assets:Banking -$800 ; [=2018-01-04]
! Assets:Banking -$250 ; [=2018-02-04]
> On 14 Apr 2018, at 15:24, Johann Höchtl <johann.hoec...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> one bigger problem is that language semantics at times makes it really hard
> to properly understand the ledger manual
> https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html so I may ask a totally
> obvious question.
>
> Suppose I buy sthg. but delivery takes time. So I have to make a
> "pre-payment" ? / is this the same as a deposit? How would I structure that
> in ledger?
>
> Instead of
>
> 2018-01-04 * TV set pre-paymant
> Expenses:Electronics $800
> Assets:Banking
>
> 2018-02-04 * TV set delivery
> Expenses:Electronics $250
> Assets:Banking
>
>
> My idea would instead be:
>
> 2018-01-04 * TV set pre-payment
> Deposit:Electronics $800
> Assets:Banking
>
> 2018-02-04 * TV set delivery
> Deposit:Electronics $250
> Assets:Banking -$250
> Expenses:Electronics
> Deposit:Electronics = $0
>
>
> Does this make sense? Are there better ways to represent pre-payments for
> expected goods not yet delivered?
>
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