On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:57 AM Alexandre Rademaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 27 Jul 2023, at 12:53, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > -- > Would you happen to have a concrete example? I didn’t follow the "before I > know how much its..”, how do you add an entry without knowing the value? > > One very easy to understand example is using a card lock to get fuel for either my vehicle or for equipment (or or or or lots of different options).
In filling I can get a ticket which indicates how much product I received. Pricing is given when I get my invoice. I can enter that I got fuel (or whatever else I got). When I get the invoice I can enter the price of the fuel and taxes included. (This means that I use null values (0.00) as place markers until receive the invoice - - - - otherwise ledger complains that there are no values on the lines.) So I know what I got but not how much. If I know the value when I get the product then its even easier. Likely more work this way - - - - but I get to keep track of when I get fuel even if its multiple times in a time period (usually a month). 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/CAPpdf5_7n-0KzQyCqYrL80pXsheN604knAEq3zW00RGhOC6PbA%40mail.gmail.com.
