So according to your commentary Martin , would you just change it to
; file: check_writing.ledger
2000/01/01 * Initial Balance
Assets:Cash $1000.00
Equity:Initial
2019/09/12 * Landlord
Expenses:Rent $500.00
Assets:Cash:Cheque:124
2019/10/11 * Landlord Cashed the check
Assets:Cash:Checque:124 $500.00
Assets:Cash
I'm not sure how what you describe is different than these two reports
One is at the end of September
ledger -f check_writing.ledger -e 2019/09/30 bal ^assets:cash$
$1000.00 Assets:Cash
The other is at the end of next month
ledger -f check_writing.ledger -e 2019/10/31 bal ^assets:cash$
$500.00 Assets:Cash
Thanks for any clarifications you can give.
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 11:59:20 AM UTC-7, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> * Taylor R Campbell <[email protected] <javascript:>> [2019-08-14
> 21:04]:
> > ; hand-written ledger entry
> > account Liabilities:Bank:Cheque:123
> > 2017-01-31 Landlord
> > Expenses:Rent $750.00
> > Liabilities:Bank:Cheque:123
> >
> > ; automatically generated by bank2ledger script
> > 2017-02-25 Bank statement
> > Liabilities:Bank:Cheque:123 $750.00
> > Assets:Bank
>
> This works fine for personal accounts where you can do whatever works
> best for you instead of following official accounting practices.
>
> This won't work for a business, however. Cheques are treated as
> immediate cash expenses: when you write a check, the money immediately
> gets deducted (in your books), even though in reality it only gets
> deducted from your bank account when the person deposits the check.
>
> That's (one reason) why businesses do bank reconciliations at the end
> of the month where they compare their books with their actual bank
> balances and account for the differences (undeposited checks get added
> to the balance from your book to match the bank balance).
>
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> https://www.cyrius.com/
>
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