Doubling the number of entries instead of making a single adjustment entry at tax time seems like a lot of extra work to me. Not to mention that the standard ledger balance report wouldn't give the true state of your business. You would forever need to use your Alias to get a true picture.
Still, if it works for you then I am happy. Me? I'm a simple sort of person. On Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 8:09:00 PM UTC+8, Remco Rijnders wrote: > > Using your input and suggestions, I think I've come up with a workable > solution for me: I create the account twice, once under the Assets > accounts > and once under the Liabilities accounts. I then define an Alias which I > use to do all my bookings to these accounts, in a way I guess this could > be seen as your sixth account category. This way I don't have to figure > out if I have a credit or a debit position after each mutation. When time > comes to make my "official" report, which is only once a year for tax > purposes really, I just ensure that, based on the balance of that account, > the alias is pointing to one account or the other. This gives me exactly > what I want in my report. > > It would be nice if this could be done automatically by ledger, perhaps by > using some sort of account command directive, but that would really be > icing on the cake. For now, I consider my question answered and case > closed! > > Thank you again for your help! > -- --- 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/c6ac57a6-976c-4bb0-b35e-1d764104b93e%40googlegroups.com.
