On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 20:26, Oliver Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:
> My ~/ledger.dat file so far:
> Assets:Checking: $1,669.73
> Liabilities:Credit_Card: $1,929.46
> Equity:Opening Balance
>
> 2021/01/01 (#1004)
> Expenses:Rent $1,000.00
> Assets:Checking
>
> 2021/01/04 IRS
> Assets:Checking $600.00 ; stimulus check
> Income:Misc
> ~
> Running ledger bal:
> ~$ledger bal
> $-400.00 Assets:Checking
> $1,000.00 Expenses:Rent
> $-600.00 Income:Misc
> --------------------
> If I have $1,669.73 in Checking, pay out $1,000.00 in rent and receive a
> $600.00 stimulus check which goes into Checking, shouldn't my checking
> balance be $1,629.73 and not $400.00? I understand ledger is ignoring the
> Opening Balance but I don't know why.
You don’t have an opening balance. You have three unintelligible lines
at the top, and then two valid transactions.
Format your opening balance as a transaction:
2020-12-31 Opening Balance
Assets:Checking $1,669.73
Liabilities:Credit_Card $1,929.46
Equity:Opening Balance
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