100% this, Martin! It's always better to pick up the present and fill in the past than it is to languish and lament on the past to spite the present and future.
This probably applies to a lot of things in life, but definitely to accounting and definitely to PTA. For the past things, automate as much as you can to get coarse imports of data in that time range, then you can revise with more exact information, payees, etc. for data preservation. On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 10:52:52 PM UTC-4 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2022-03-13 19:35]: > > Hello I have about 7 years worth of data in a ledger file till > > ~2019. Due to some life events I had to stop updating it and now I > > would like to pick it back up. > > > > I would really like add to the same file. Is there a good approach > > to do this? > > I'd post adjustment entries to bring your balances in sync with what > your bank says. > > If your ledger from 2019 says you have 400 EUR in the bank, but the > bank balance is 1000 EUR right now, you could add this entry: > > 2022-03-14 * Adjust bank balance > Assets:Bank 600.00 EUR = 1000 EUR > Equity:Opening balance > > In fact, ledger supports setting a certain balance like this: > > 2022-03-14 * Adjust > Assets:Bank = 1000 EUR > Equity:Opening balance > > If you later find time to important bank transactions from 2019-2022, > you can always do that. > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > https://www.cyrius.com/ > -- --- 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/d9bea067-9920-482e-973f-976a1c781c97n%40googlegroups.com.
