Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-28 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
On 28/11/2020 04.16, James Cook wrote: > Oh, that was at the bottom of my October 6 email: https://hub.darcs.net/falsifian/misc-pub/browse/beancount_plugins/falsifian/alt_value.py Thank you!

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-27 Thread James Cook
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 06:19, Martin Blais wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:48 PM James Cook wrote: > >> Disclaimer: If I were a practical person, the below would be a >> non-issue because I would simply track my income in currency and leave >> it at that. Please assume at least part of my

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-27 Thread James Cook
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 19:41, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > On 26/11/2020 00.23, James Cook wrote: > > > To be clear, I feel this is no longer a problem for me. I wrote a > plugin that does things the way I like, whether or not it's the most > sensible. > > Awesome! If you can share the code,

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-26 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
On 26/11/2020 00.23, James Cook wrote: To be clear, I feel this is no longer a problem for me. I wrote a plugin that does things the way I like, whether or not it's the most sensible. Awesome!  If you can share the code, I'd love to take a look. Still, I'm curious what you mean. What

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-25 Thread James Cook
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 01:28, Martin Blais wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:23 PM James Cook wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 17:50, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) >> wrote: >> > You need different symbols for unvested and vested stock because they >> are literally not the same objects. >> >> This

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-25 Thread Martin Blais
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:23 PM James Cook wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 17:50, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) > wrote: > > You need different symbols for unvested and vested stock because they > are literally not the same objects. > > This seems like a question of how you want to look at it. I like

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-25 Thread James Cook
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 17:50, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > You need different symbols for unvested and vested stock because they are > literally not the same objects. This seems like a question of how you want to look at it. I like to imagine the ACME stocks are first created in a "vesting"

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-11-24 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
You need different symbols for unvested and vested stock because they are literally not the same objects.  Then when you vest you book an Income to offset the zero value of the invested stock. Oct 6, 2020 04:58:42 James Cook : >> Hi list, >> >> The problem: Part of my income is in stock (call

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-10-05 Thread James Cook
> > Hi list, > > The problem: Part of my income is in stock (call it ACME). The way I > see it, stock simply goes from my income account to my brokerage > account. The way my tax authority sees it, there's some currency > involved. I'd like to track my income both ways. > > Here's my point of

Re: Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-07-25 Thread Martin Blais
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:48 PM James Cook wrote: > Disclaimer: If I were a practical person, the below would be a > non-issue because I would simply track my income in currency and leave > it at that. Please assume at least part of my motivation is just > having fun tracking the world the way I

Tracking different ways of accounting at the same time?

2020-05-27 Thread James Cook
Disclaimer: If I were a practical person, the below would be a non-issue because I would simply track my income in currency and leave it at that. Please assume at least part of my motivation is just having fun tracking the world the way I see it, and feel free to skip this post if you don't feel