Hi,
I may incur expenses in multiple currencies using cash in those countries.
What I'd like is to just display the expenses in one currency (USD), but
the cash balances to always display in whatever currencies they hold.
Here's what I have:
account Assets:Dollars
account Assets:Yen
account Expenses
commodity JPY
commodity USD
P 2022-01-01 00:00:00 USD 100 JPY
2022-01-02 US Merchant
Assets:Dollars -11.00 USD
Expenses 11.00 USD
2022-01-03 JP Merchant
Assets:Yen -2000 JPY
Expenses 2000 JPY ; 20.00 USD
P 2022-02-01 00:00:00 USD 125 JPY
2022-02-02 US Merchant
Assets:Dollars -22.00 USD
Expenses 22.00 USD
2022-02-03 JP Merchant
Assets:Yen -3750 JPY
Expenses 3750 JPY ; 30.00 USD
I can get the expenses in USD as expected:
$ ledger -f temp.ledger bal --init-file /dev/null -H -X USD
-83.00 USD Assets
-33.00 USD Dollars
-50.00 USD Yen
83.00 USD Expenses
--------------------
0
However, I can't seem to get the Assets:Yen account to display in JPY
properly. I found this snippet from the docs:
Or, if it better suits your accounting, you can be less symbolic, which
allows you to report most everything in EUR if you use ‘-X EUR’, except for
certain accounts or postings which should always be valuated in another
currency. For example:
= /^Assets:Brokerage:CAD$/
; Always report the value of commodities in this account in
; terms of present day dollars, despite what was asked for
; on the command-line VALUE:: market(amount, date, ‘$’)
Sounds exactly like what I wanted. However, adding this:
= /Assets:Yen/
; VALUE:: market(amount, date, 'JPY')
results in complete nonsense for the Assets:Yen account:
$ ledger -f temp.ledger bal --init-file /dev/null -H -X USD
144467.00 USD Assets
-33.00 USD Dollars
144500.00 USD Yen
83.00 USD Expenses
--------------------
144550.00 USD
What am I doing wrong?
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