Hi all,
I am working on some tax returns, and am seeing something which, to my
amateur eyes, seems strange. When I run a balance report for my entire
ledger that covers multiple years, I come to one amount. However, when I
then run balances for the individual years, the balances don't add up
together.
Please see below an example of what I did for the "income" account which
consists of several sub accounts and I also have multiple currencies. In
order to not reveal confidential information, I have introduced a random
currency 'RND' with a single fixed exchange rate to my normal reporting
currency.
$ ledger bal -f balance-question.ledger income -e 2017-01-01 -X RND | head -1;
ledger bal -f balance-question.ledger income -b 2017-01-01 -e 2018-01-01 -X RND
| head -1; ledger bal -f balance-question.ledger income -b 2018-01-01 -e
2019-01-01 -X RND | head -1; echo; ledger bal -f balance-question.ledger income
-e 2019-01-01 -X RND | head -1
RND -261127,97 income
RND -174407,32 income
RND -226957,44 income
RND -661750,74 income
Adding these numbers up, I would expect a total balance of RND -662492,73
instead of the total balance of -661750,74 I find now. This poses an issue
for me as I determine my profit by subtracting my yearly expenses from my
yearly income and I expect the profit of year 1, plus year 2, plus year 3,
to be equal to my total profit over the years.
Can someone else see a similar issue with their own balances? Or am I
misunderstanding something as to how balances should align with each
other? When I run a register report for these 3 periods and for the 1
total period instead of a balance report, I get the same numbers for both.
I wonder if it can somehow be explained by the exchange rates / commodity
values that are selected when including date criteria?
Any ideas?
Kind regards,
Remco Rijnders
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