Re: Keeping track of cash advances
Thank you for the help. It's just what I needed. On Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 6:45:05 PM UTC-4 Michael Cordover wrote: > I think you want a liability account for the estate, and a corresponding > personal asset. > > So something like: > > 2023-07-27 Transfer advance to Estate account > Assets:Estate:Checking:MyBank$100 > Liabilities:Estate:Advances -$100 > Assets:Loans:Advances-to-Estate $100 > Assets:Checking:MyBank > > 2023-07-28 Purchase on behalf of Estate > Expenses:Estate:Utilities:Electricity $75 > Liabilities:Estate:Advances -$75 > Assets:Loans:Advances-to-Estate$75 > Assets:Checking:MyBank > > and then your balance looks like: > > $100 Assets > $-175Checking:MyBank > $100Estate:Checking:MyBank > $175Loans:Advances-to-Estate > $75 Expenses:Estate:Utilities:Electricity > $-175 Liabilities:Estate:Advances > > So you have -$175 in your account (I started with a zero balance); the > estate account has $100 in it (again, zero starting balance), but you're > entitled to $175 back from the estate (Assets:Loans:Advances-to-Estate) and > the estate has an account showing what it owes back to you > (Liabilities:Estate:Advances). > > You can then pay yourself back with a transaction like: > > 2023-07-28 Reimburse Pete > Assets:Estate:Checking:MyBank-$100 > Liabilities:Estate:Advances $100 > Assets:Loans:Advances-to-Estate -$100 > Assets:Checking:MyBank ; implicitly +$100 > > In my experience estates tend to be separate accounting entities from your > personal accounts, so I would even consider structuring those accounts as > Estate:Assets:Checking:MyBank, Estate:Liabilities:Advances-to-Pete etc, > just to make the distinction super obvious. > > mjec > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, at 15:42, Pete Kelly 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? > > Thanks for any help, > Pete > > > -- > > --- > 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+...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/50008b27-1272-4ed9-ac80-39b0a78df4f9n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/50008b27-1272-4ed9-ac80-39b0a78df4f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email_source=footer> > . > > > -- --- 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/ecea28e2-e0c1-4860-b215-425588d9931dn%40googlegroups.com.
Keeping track of cash advances
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? Thanks for any help, Pete -- --- 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/50008b27-1272-4ed9-ac80-39b0a78df4f9n%40googlegroups.com.
Re: Ledger-mode reconcile: space bar not working
Somewhat solved. The spacebar was bound to an evil mode command to move forward one character. I switched from Emacs mode to evil mode with CTRL-Z and now the spacebar is bound correctly to 'ledger-reconcile-toggle.' Should I put something in my .emacs to disable evil mode in the ledger-mode reconcile buffer? What's the right way to do it? Thank you, Pete On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 2:35:54 PM UTC-4 Pete Kelly wrote: > My first time trying to reconcile an account using ledger-mode. I put the > cursor on the account to be reconciled, for example, > > 2022-01-01 Stop & Shop > Expenses:Groceries $50 > Assets:Checking <--- CURSOR ON THIS LINE > > then start reconciliation with C-c C-r. The account 'Assets:Checking' is > displayed in the minibuffer, I press Enter. The Reconcile buffer appears. I > enter the target balance and the cursor appears at the top of the Reconcile > buffer When I move the cursor to a transaction and press the space bar to > clear it, nothing happens, except that the cursor moves to the right one > space. > > My Emacs version is 27.2 on MacOS High Sierra > > Probably just a beginner mistake on my part, but I can't solve it. > > Thank you for any help, > Pete > -- --- 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/56229d72-1dad-46ce-8b97-dd9e629e65f1n%40googlegroups.com.
Ledger-mode reconcile: space bar not working
My first time trying to reconcile an account using ledger-mode. I put the cursor on the account to be reconciled, for example, 2022-01-01 Stop & Shop Expenses:Groceries $50 Assets:Checking <--- CURSOR ON THIS LINE then start reconciliation with C-c C-r. The account 'Assets:Checking' is displayed in the minibuffer, I press Enter. The Reconcile buffer appears. I enter the target balance and the cursor appears at the top of the Reconcile buffer When I move the cursor to a transaction and press the space bar to clear it, nothing happens, except that the cursor moves to the right one space. My Emacs version is 27.2 on MacOS High Sierra Probably just a beginner mistake on my part, but I can't solve it. Thank you for any help, Pete -- --- 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/683a6af4-1847-4857-852f-57114f47fba3n%40googlegroups.com.
