It's actually pretty easy to reconcile two statements if they can both agree upon a common UUID ( or something similar like Check number) for the transaction that occurred between them both. This is what I meant by the "Cryptocurrency / block chain" solution where each transaction has a unique identifier.
Each transaction would be sacrosanct and uniquely named so there would be no need to go back and mark either transaction as "cleared". That suits my needs better than having to manually go through and hand edit my ledger files after the fact. I know that this kind of goes against the default standard of accounting, but I feel like that is going to be replaced with more of these electronic transactions. On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 7:24:38 PM UTC-7, psionl0 wrote: > > On Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 1:29:45 AM UTC+8, Jimi Damon wrote: >> >> Clearing that way is really cumbersome, isn't nearly as scriptable as the >> method mentioned and really doesn't jive well with modern day >> Cryptocurrency / block chain solutions. >> >> Just adding the asterisk would be much simpler but you wish to keep the > original source file immutable. This way is at least consistent with > business practices. > > I don't understand the cryptocurrency reference. If you are paying for > something using a crypto then the payment goes pretty much instantaneously > (unless you fail to pay a transaction fee) and the entry can be cleared at > the time you make it. If you are buying or selling cryptocurrencies then > you would account for it in the same way that you would account for any > other good or service. > -- --- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/d9642f81-11aa-47bb-a4f3-d98c1abdaecb%40googlegroups.com.
