On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:27 PM John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>> "o" == o1bigtenor <[email protected]> writes: > > o> Not sure I would go as far as to say I find the process 'enjoyable' - - - - > o> its still tedious - - - - if only there were some way to truly automate the > o> process! > > I'm working on a Haskell project right now that fully automates downloading > data from my broker and converting it into full Ledger entries that look like > this: > > 2019-06-03 * (XXXXXXXXXXX) SELL TRADE > ; Symbol: ZM > ; Type: TRADE > (Expenses:TD:Fees) $0.10 > Expenses:Capital:Short $655.31 > Assets:TD:XXXXXXXXX:Equities -50 ZM {{$4,988.96}} > [2019-05-24] @ $86.675 > ; CUSIP: 98980L101 > ; Instruction: Sell > ; Instrument: Equity > ; Subtype: SL > ; XID: XXXXXXXXXXX > Assets:TD:XXXXXXXXX:Cash $4,333.65 > > Given how much fun it's been to write, I think I may extend to doing something > similar for my other institutions. That would be automatic as it gets! >
That sounds like it might be useful for trading stock - - - - sorta like for stock brokers. What about small business types that buy things like parts from umpteen entities and even more interesting (maybe boring) things? When I look at a cashier's slip I can figure out what accounts things go into - - - dunno how you'd be able to automate all of that - - - - well maybe but that would mean having a complete copy of all the UAN and EAN (I think that is what the US and the European bar code associations are) bar codes. Might be a large assumption that one could make that an error free process. I'm following this! -- --- 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/CAPpdf58C9DR-HmsQ5uBn3CLyjqfrUTvS1n_E07K0Hy40wd1OnA%40mail.gmail.com.
