Re: Cleared Report Error

2013-04-07 Thread fanny
Thanks for the replies. I try with move automated transaction at the end of file and I try too with delete automated transaction, there's no error when I do: ledger -f drewr3.dat cleared but the result is same (move and delete), but different from the documentation. So the cleared repot still

Extending with Python

2013-04-07 Thread fanny
I try: ledger python demo.py with content: import ledger for xact in ledger.read_journal("drewr3.dat").xacts: for post in xact.posts: print "Transferring %s to/from %s" % (post.amount, post.account) and get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "demo.py", line 3, in for xa

Re: building cl-ledger

2013-04-07 Thread Anton Vodonosov
On Sunday, April 7, 2013 7:49:49 PM UTC+3, John Wiegley wrote: >> Anton Vodonosov writes: > >> Some info for people who want to use Common Lisp version of ledger: >> https://gist.github.com/avodonosov/5327432 > > Hi Anton, > > Would you like to take over as maintainer of cl-ledger? :) >

Re: Accounting for Projected Major Maintenance

2013-04-07 Thread Rick F
David, Thanks. The piece you filled in for me is treating the maintenance as a future expense. This balances everything and makes the future expense show up as a liability on the balance sheet. Here's what I came up with, translated in ledger. 2012/01/01 Opening Balances Expense:Reserves:

Re: balance on "top level" items

2013-04-07 Thread Craig Earls
Well given the state of the manual I usually take questions like this to be WTM (WRITE The Manual)...there are lots of holes. On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Scott Carpenter wrote: > Yes! Exactly it. Thank you. > > I've been going through the manual a fair amount for things, and searching > these

Re: Convert CSV - ERROR

2013-04-07 Thread fanny
Sorry Johann, Craig . Double post happened because i think my first topic fail. I already try "ledger convert tryCsv1.csv -input-date-format %m/%d/%Y" then an error appears: Error: Illegal option -i And I add "-" sign, so become "ledger convert tryCsv1.csv --input-date-format %m/%d/%Y" than an

Re: Convert CSV - ERROR

2013-04-07 Thread fanny
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Re: balance on "top level" items

2013-04-07 Thread Scott Carpenter
Yes! Exactly it. Thank you. I've been going through the manual a fair amount for things, and searching these forums, but very often things elude me for lack of familiarity or the proper framing of the question, so I hope you all don't mind some simple questions thrown out here. I'll happily acc

Re: balance on "top level" items

2013-04-07 Thread John Rakestraw
Hi, Scott -- I think this is what you want -- ledger bal ^expenses --depth 2 --John On Sunday, April 7, 2013 8:39:59 PM UTC-4, Scott Carpenter wrote: > > Supposing you have things broken down like so: > > expenses > ---} leisure > ---} ---} games > ---} ---} tomfoolery > ---} misc > ---} ---} s

balance on "top level" items

2013-04-07 Thread Scott Carpenter
Supposing you have things broken down like so: expenses ---} leisure ---} ---} games ---} ---} tomfoolery ---} misc ---} ---} shrubberies ---} ---} assorted And you wanted to run a balance report that just sums things up as: expenses ---} leisure ---} misc How might you do that? Thanks! Scott

Re: Using Ledger as a time tracking system?

2013-04-07 Thread Colin Dean
Having some good documentation would make this a lot easier to understand. I messed around with it a little last night, but I'm getting caught up on the options because I don't know ledger's options very well yet. [colin@kid tmp]$ cat time.ledger i 2013/04/05 09:30:00 Internal:Meeting:Tactical

Re: Accounting for Projected Major Maintenance

2013-04-07 Thread David Gilman
Alternatively, if you want to retain the undershot/overshot character of the expense in account balances, you can do the last transaction like this: Expense:Machine maint.;amount if overshot Liability:A/P:Machine maint. ;clear acct balance Cash

Re: Accounting for Projected Major Maintenance

2013-04-07 Thread David Gilman
Intermediate Accounting, Wiley, 14th ed: In general, costs incurred to achieve greater future benefits should be capitalized, whereas expenditures that simply maintain a given level of service should be expensed. however, the book goes on and explains a situation where maintenance that maintains

Accounting for Projected Major Maintenance

2013-04-07 Thread Rick F
This is more a general accounting question than it is a Ledger question, per se, but it potentially uses ledger specific features like virtual accounts. How can I account for projected major maintenance that results from machine use? Every hour of machine operation builds up a liability for an

Re: building cl-ledger

2013-04-07 Thread John Wiegley
> Anton Vodonosov writes: > Some info for people who want to use Common Lisp version of ledger: > https://gist.github.com/avodonosov/5327432 Hi Anton, Would you like to take over as maintainer of cl-ledger? :) John -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog