Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

That makes perfect sense. Thanks. :) On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > There are two methods going on in this thread, a simple method of keeping > a running account of the other person's contributions and paying their > share of expenses from that account,

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

There are two methods going on in this thread, a simple method of keeping a running account of the other person's contributions and paying their share of expenses from that account, and a more complex method of maintaining a separate beancount ledger dedicated for the project and that recording

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

This thread feels suspiciously close to the change I'm trying to model, but it's still not quite making sense to me. I have several roommates. I originally thought that each person would pay into an "Asset:Pending:GoesToRent" account, then that would pay out to the

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard < >> jer...@jeremyms.com> wrote: >> >>> How about booking shared expenses to

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard > wrote: > >> How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) >> account? If you want to keep track of joint expenses that

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) > account? If you want to keep track of joint expenses that your girlfriend > paid for, you could make the source account:

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

How about booking shared expenses to an Expenses:Joint:Rent (or similar) account? If you want to keep track of joint expenses that your girlfriend paid for, you could make the source account: Equity:Girlfriend-Paid or something similar? Tags on accounts (or postings?) would be a nice thing to

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:59:04PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Simon Michael > wrote: > > > Congrats, Martin!! > > Ditto! > > > > Gonna present him with his

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:59:04PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Simon Michael wrote: > > Congrats, Martin!! Ditto! > > Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-) So, *cough* I'm actually doing the same think for my

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Simon Michael wrote: > Congrats, Martin!! > Thanks! > Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-) > In inflation-adjusted terms! ;-) Just kidding > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

Congrats, Martin!! Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

... and this, to operate on the personal Ledger to divert the expenses to a single "child" account: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/6fa5306f04df887207b1a12062b7107ab169d109 This completes the system. It works. On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Martin Blais wrote:

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/d21ed26280ccebcb5e034a86e33ce6c5b842b858 Works great! On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:04 AM, Martin Blais wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Sorry all for the very slow response. The

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > Hey, > > Sorry all for the very slow response. The holiday period got the better of > me. > > All of these methods you've mentioned seem to only count half the cost on > your own accounts though and the other half is counted against

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

Hey, Sorry all for the very slow response. The holiday period got the better of me. All of these methods you've mentioned seem to only count half the cost on your own accounts though and the other half is counted against a generic account for your partner or roommate? What I would like to do

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

To give another example: My partner uses Beancount and Fava (https://beancount.github.io/fava/) as well, and we both have a Liabilities-account for each other. So if I buy something that belongs to her but I pay, I create an according transaction (eg. Assets:CreditCard and

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

I do this too - my partner and I share most expenses - and the simple way is to create for your girlfriend an assets account (if she generally pays after the fact) or a liabilities account (if she generally pays ahead of time), and then to use the SQL client to generate a journal of that account