Re: Having Ledger calculate a commodity / exchange rates by telling it an entry balances
As far as I can tell, this already does exactly what you want. It does reveal a bug, though as a bogus price entry gets created: ~/src/ledger $ ./ledger -f /tmp/foo.dat pricedb P 2012/03/12 00:00:00 CAD CAD 1.00454320987654321 This is already reported: http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680 -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
Having Ledger calculate a commodity / exchange rates by telling it an entry balances
Hi, Is it possible to tell Ledger an entry with transactions in two commodities / currencies balances, so that it can calculate the exchange rate? Motivating situation: I am in the US, and I withdrew, say, USD 200.00 from my Canadian chequing account. The ATM here charged me USD 2.50 as an additional fee. The withdrawal shows up in my online banking as CAD 203.42 or something like that. In addition to this, my bank in Canada charged me a CAD 2.00 fee. I would like to write something like the following: 2012-03-12 * Withdrawal Assets:Cash USD 200.00 Expenses:Banking:Fees USD 2.50 Assets:Chequing CAD -203.42 Expenses:Banking:Fees CAD 2.00 Assets:ChqeuingCAD -2.00 and tell Ledger that this balances, so it can work out the rate. I have used the @@ in the past, but that was on withdrawals in the UK where the ATMs do not charge fees. Dealing with the CAD fee is simple, it's the USD fee here that is throwing things off; the only way I can see is to do a manual calculation of the portion that the USD 2.50 makes up of the CAD 203.42. This seems wrong. Is there a way to get Ledger to do what I want? Thanks, -Kamal
Re: Having Ledger calculate a commodity / exchange rates by telling it an entry balances
Kamal Marhubi kamal-7mlawaoftq1bdgjk7y7...@public.gmane.org writes: Hi, Is it possible to tell Ledger an entry with transactions in two commodities / currencies balances, so that it can calculate the exchange rate? 2012-03-12 * Withdrawal Assets:Cash USD 200.00 Expenses:Banking:Fees USD 2.50 Assets:Chequing CAD -203.42 Epenses:Banking:FeesCAD 2.00 Assets:ChqeuingCAD -2.00 As far as I can tell, this already does exactly what you want. It does reveal a bug, though as a bogus price entry gets created: ~/src/ledger $ ./ledger -f /tmp/foo.dat pricedb P 2012/03/12 00:00:00 CAD CAD 1.00454320987654321 P 2012/03/12 00:00:00 USD CAD 1.00454320987654321 John
