Hello, I'm not sure I understand the Fixed Lot Prices section of the manual:
https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Fixing-Lot-Prices Specifically, this example transaction in section 4.5.3: Expenses:Gasoline 11 GAL {=$2.299} @ $2.30 The manual says "This transaction says that you bought 11 gallons priced at $2.299 per gallon at a cost to you of $2.30 per gallon.". I interpret that to mean I paid $2.30 per gallon, but the gas is worth $2.299 per gallon, but that's not what happens: $ ledger --file fixedlot.ldg reg 09-Jan-01 Shell Expenses:Gasoline 11 GAL {=$2.299} 11 GAL {=$2.299} Assets:Checking $-25.29 $-25.29 11 GAL {=$2.299} Shouldn't it debit the checking account (11 * $2.30) = $25.30, not ($11 * $2.299) = $25.29? I don't care about gas, but I thought this might be an interesting way to represent treasury bills you intend to hold to maturity. These are sold at a discount, i.e. a treasury bill with a face value of $100 might be sold for $95, so you could write this: 2024/01/01 Investment Assets:Broker 100 USTBILL {=$1} @ $0.95 Assets:Checking The intention is that if you do bal -X '$', it shows me $100, but only debits checking $95 on purchase. I dunno if that makes sense, I'm not a finance guy, maybe I'm doing this the naive way! How do other people represent them? :) Tavis. -- _o) $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com /\\ _o) _o) $ finger [email protected] _\_V _( ) _( ) @taviso -- --- 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/un4dq4%2417i3%241%40ciao.gmane.io.
