Wages are a tax deductible expense but dividends are not. So I make dividends a sub-category of "equity". Note that there is no need to include the payee name in either the wage or dividend payment names since you can use the payee name to filter your reports.
Typical entries might be: 2020/05/11 Johnny Smith Expenses:Wages $ 500.00 Liabilities:Tax Deducted $ -90.00 Bank:Checking Account $ -410.00 2020/05/11 Ima Owner Equity:Dividends $ 250.00 Bank:Checking Account $ -250.00 To check Johnny Smith's wage payments you simply need something like ledger -f file.dat reg Wages and @"Johnny Smith" -b 2020/01/01 You can get a summary of all of the transactions for Johnny Smith in the usual way: ledger -f file.dat bal @"Johnny Smith" -b 2020/01/01 Ditto for checking Ima Owner's dividend payments. -- --- 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/056d366b-130f-4c51-8b53-3537b709d8f4%40googlegroups.com.
