On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:42 AM Pete Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, new Ledger user, and I'm handling the estate of a family member. To > pay some of the bills I'm advancing the estate money from my own account. I'd > like to keep track of each advance, but I'm not sure how to assign these > transactions to the correct accounts. I've been using 'Estate' and 'Advance' > to keep track. > > Here's an example of a transfer from one account to another: > > 2023-07-27 Transfer > Assets:Estate:Checking:MyBank $100 ; receiving account > Assets:Checking:MyBank > > Here's a purchase: > > 2023-07-27 Eversource > Expenses:Advance:Estate:Utilities:Electricity. $75.00 > Assets:Checking:MyBank > > Can anybody suggest how to do this correctly? Maybe I should use tags instead? >
Dunno about "doing this correctly" - - - - but I use credit accounts. I buy some fuel for agency Y. They issue a statement the following month payable that month. I use a credit account to "pay' for the purchase before I know how much its going to be. When I make my payment the payee is the agency and the credit account is reduced by that amount. Its all in the matter of having enough listed 'accounts'. I have been using this idea long before I even had a computer to use - - - think early 80s. HTH -- --- 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/CAPpdf59Gj2HOgmMS7Orm9tWgJKKDSg1AZe4dJQKvoWWcduSZSA%40mail.gmail.com.
