Two questions about budgeting
Hi all, as I mentioned previously, I finally decided to finish my booklet about Ledger, and I really want to show how to do budgeting with it. However, I myself cannit grok it. Please help. Here is my example file (totally fake). --8<---cut here---start->8--- ~ Daily Expenses:Food 30.00 PLN Assets ~ Monthly Expenses:Books200.00 PLN Assets 2022-01-02 Groceries Expenses:Food 20.00 PLN Assets:Cash 2022-01-03 C.S.Lewis "That hideous strength" Expenses:Books 45.00 PLN Assets:Cash 2022-01-03 Groceries Expenses:Food 100.00 PLN Assets:Cash --8<---cut here---end--->8--- I ran a budgeting command against this file, and I don't know how to interpret its output. --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ ledger reg -f budget-example.ledger ^expenses -b 2022-01-01 -e 2022-01-04 -y %Y-%m-%d --invert --budget 2022-01-02 Budget transaction Expenses:Food30.00 PLN 30.00 PLN 2022-01-01 Budget transaction Expenses:Books 200.00 PLN 230.00 PLN 2022-01-02 Groceries Expenses:Food -20.00 PLN 210.00 PLN 2022-01-03 Budget transaction Expenses:Food30.00 PLN 240.00 PLN 2022-01-03 C.S.Lewis "..." Expenses:Books -45.00 PLN 195.00 PLN 2022-01-03 Groceries Expenses:Food -100.00 PLN 95.00 PLN --8<---cut here---end--->8--- 1. Why is there no "budget transaction" for groceries for 2022-01-01? 2. I would assume that after these three days my "books" budget should allow me to spend 155 PLN more on books and my "food" budget would be short of 30 PLN. Yet I can see neither of these amounts in the report. How to make Ledger compute them? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/87mt68nzd8.fsf%40mbork.pl.
Re: How to compute average monthly expenses?
On 2023-01-24, at 01:06, John Wiegley wrote:
>> o1bigtenor writes:
>
>> That - sir - - - -begs the question - - - what is 'average' supposed to do?
>
> Average just takes the number of entries in a group, and divides the total by
> the count. Here's the implementation:
>
> OPTION_(report_t, average, DO() { // -A
> OTHER(empty).on(whence);
> OTHER(display_total_)
> .on(whence, "count>0?(display_total/count):0");
> });
>
> Which means that `--average` is just a short-hand for:
>
> --empty --display-total "count>0?(display_total/count):0"
Thanks for the answer, but that still does not explain the "450" figure
for me. Of course, the total is 2700, so I assume Ledger divided it by
6 -- but why 6?
(Also, since I've decided to finally finish my booklet on accounting
with Ledger, expect more questions soon;-) -- hope that's ok with
you...)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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Re: How to compute average monthly expenses?
> o1bigtenor writes:
> That - sir - - - -begs the question - - - what is 'average' supposed to do?
Average just takes the number of entries in a group, and divides the total by
the count. Here's the implementation:
OPTION_(report_t, average, DO() { // -A
OTHER(empty).on(whence);
OTHER(display_total_)
.on(whence, "count>0?(display_total/count):0");
});
Which means that `--average` is just a short-hand for:
--empty --display-total "count>0?(display_total/count):0"
John
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Re: How to compute average monthly expenses?
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 4:58 PM John Wiegley wrote: > > > "MB" == Marcin Borkowski writes: > > MB> What is going on here? (Obviously, I expected 900 PLN monthly average.) > MB> Even more unexpectedly, when I use -p "last year", the result is exactly > MB> the same (and I would expect 300 PLN then). > > I'm not sure that "--average" has ever done what everyone expects in the > balance report. > That - sir - - - -begs the question - - - what is 'average' supposed to do? TIA -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/CAPpdf588ERiH6AyDZhzWZDqX%2BpkME3B8yuZ025Zfqadzq4OPjw%40mail.gmail.com.
Re: How to compute average monthly expenses?
> "MB" == Marcin Borkowski writes: MB> What is going on here? (Obviously, I expected 900 PLN monthly average.) MB> Even more unexpectedly, when I use -p "last year", the result is exactly MB> the same (and I would expect 300 PLN then). I'm not sure that "--average" has ever done what everyone expects in the balance report. John -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/m2a628c0yw.fsf%40newartisans.com.
Re: How to compute average monthly expenses?
On 2023-01-23, at 21:12, Stanko Trček wrote: > How about this ? > > ledger -f data.txt --monthly --average register Expenses Ah, I think this works. I'll perform a few more experiments. Thanks! Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/87r0vlnfdy.fsf%40mbork.pl.
Re: How to compute average monthly expenses?
How about this ? ledger -f data.txt --monthly --average register Expenses ponedeljek, 23. januar 2023 ob 06:04:08 UTC+1 je oseba Marcin Borkowski napisala: > Hi all, > > I try to follow the example from the manual and compute average monthly > expenses. Here is my example journal file: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > 2022-01-01 Food > Expenses:Food 930.00 PLN > Assets:Cash > > 2022-02-01 Food > Expenses:Food 800.00 PLN > Assets:Cash > > 2022-03-01 Food > Expenses:Food 970.00 PLN > Assets:Cash > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > > and here is what I do in command line: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > ledger -b 2022-01-01 -e 2022-04-01 --monthly --average balance -f myfile > > -450.00 PLN Assets:Cash > 450.00 PLN Expenses:Food > > 0 > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > > What is going on here? (Obviously, I expected 900 PLN monthly average.) > Even more unexpectedly, when I use -p "last year", the result is exactly > the same (and I would expect 300 PLN then). > > I use Ledger 3.2.1-20200518. > > TIA, > > -- > Marcin Borkowski > http://mbork.pl > -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/836053c1-c5a0-4222-95bb-60a3a7db9084n%40googlegroups.com.
