On 9/14/19 6:54 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:42 AM Taylor R Campbell > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote:; Order a batch of widgets. > 2018-12-30 Acme Widgets > Expenses:Widgets 100 EUR > Liabilities:Acme Widgets:Order #12837 > > ; Write a cheque for the batch of widgets. > 2019-01-05 Acme Widgets > Liabilities:Acme Widgets:Order #12837 100 EUR > Assets:Bank:Cheque:123 ;or Liabilities:Bank:Cheque:123 > > ; Reconcile the bank statement. > 2019-02-01 Bank statement > Assets:Bank:Cheque:123 100 EUR > Assets:Bank:Balance >> >> >> I can understand why someone, a business owner, would want ALL THREE >> pieces of information. >> Part of the challenge is that your example is showing the distinction between >> three different viewpoints. >> The bank doesn't care when anything is happening. What is important to the >> bank is when the 'instrument' is drawn (check is cashed) and that's >> it. (The bank >> does sorta care as its a right royal pita dealing with checks after a >> stale date of >> over 3 months today.) >> Acme Widgets only cares that it gets its money. >> Bookkeeper cares that the cleared check matches an expenditure. >> >> Reading back to the beginning of the thread - - - the desire was to >> have some way >> of tracking all points of reference (previously mentioned 3 + that of >> the check writer) >> easily. I don't really know of an 'easy' way - - - just know I need to. >> >> Sorry for any confusion or misunderstanding caused!! >> >> Regards
Taylor answered this perfectly. Using ledger plus the correct command line filtering , you get everything that you described 1. Bank's perspective 2. When the check was written 3. When the check cleared The original post was about having the information in a format so that "one" didn't have to edit ledger files to put in an Asterisks (*) to mark transactions as cleared. -- --- 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/f1799dfc-3b1b-0266-79ca-0d18f47619aa%40gmail.com.
