Agree with the suggestions made by Martin and Colin. I'd add that due to various personal circumstances, I slipped up on updating my journal for 1.5 years during the pandemic. It took me around 4-5 hours (half a Saturday, more or less) to catch up through manual data entry. But don't put off adding new data just because you haven't added the old data (i.e., don't do what I did!). All the best!
On Tuesday, 15 March, 2022 at 1:54:19 am UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: > 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/c520dca9-6e90-4618-8457-edbb28099284n%40googlegroups.com.
