I am afraid you are crediting me with more intelligence than I actually
have.
I find balance assertion to be very difficult to understand and the few
lines in the docs don't make it
any easier.
Follwoing your example, I enter:
2024/04/08 * Balance Assertion:Ally_Savings
Assets:Ally_Savings $0.00 = $47.19
($47.19 being the ending balance in the account as of April 8).
In return I get:
Warning: "home/oliver/ledger.dat", line 1003: Unknown account
'Assets:Ally_Savings $0.00 = $47.19'
Obviously, I am doing something wrong, but what?
Thanks
On Friday, May 17, 2024 at 2:48:09 AM UTC-4 Alan Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2024-05-16 22:57, "Robin H. Johnson" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Our bank statements give us the opening and closing balances for each
> > statement, and I enter those as an assertion of the balance.
> >
> > If I have an error somewhere before that, such as a missing transaction,
> > or a typo; the assertion flags that something is wrong.
> >
> > If your bank statements provide a known balance after each transaction,
> > you can enter that:
> >
> > 2009/04/30 * Interest Earned: AccountName
> > Assets:Bank:AccountName $ 16.14 = $ 19,016.25
> > Income:Interest:AccountName
> >
> > If your bank statements provide an opening or closing balance to the
> statement,
> > you can use that:
> >
> > 2023/06/30 * Balance Assertion: AccountName
> > Assets:Bank:AccountName $ 0.00 = $ 52,289.96
>
> This looks very useful, but I have trouble understanding how it works
> with past transactions that are not yet reconciled (i.e., not part of
> the balance, yet present and before in the file). Are these transactions
> ignored? If so, the balance will break once they are reconciled in the
> future, won’t it?
>
> Best,
>
> Alan
>
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