Re: Getting started with budgets in ledger and org-mode

2014-07-20 Thread Alan Schmitt
On 2014-07-20 03:31, Will Monroe wtmon...@gmail.com writes: Thanks, Erik. I guess the basic concepts of double-entry accounting have not sunk in very deeply yet ; ) I added assets as you suggested and it balanced just fine. Also, I appreciate your advice regarding ledger's built in budgeting

Re: Getting started with budgets in ledger and org-mode

2014-07-20 Thread Gmail
Alan, Thanks for sharing this. I ran across your example when I was searching the list but it was a bit beyond me since I hadn't a working version of Erik's example at the time. But yours intrigues me. As I read this, it appears that you keep all your ledger data in a separate file,

Re: Multiple file support for ledger mode

2014-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 06:19:34AM -0700, Craig Earls wrote: I would like to see the specific elisp error that reconciliation threw. The reconcile window is populated by output from ledger itself, so the included transactions should be there. Right now I don't track to see what file the

Re: Multiple file support for ledger mode

2014-07-20 Thread Johann Klähn
Just a thought: Can you maybe do M-x toggle-debug-on-error and show where it originates? On Jul 20, 2014 8:32 PM, Richard Cobbe co...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 06:19:34AM -0700, Craig Earls wrote: I would like to see the specific elisp error that reconciliation threw. The

Re: --getquote option not supported

2014-07-20 Thread Carl Hauser
Thanks, Craig. On Saturday, July 19, 2014 5:56:51 AM UTC-7, Craig Earls wrote: You haven't missed anything. My patch for get quote had to be backed out. I can't quite remember why. I will try to resurrect it. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Tracking contributions to an account

2014-07-20 Thread Nathan Grigg
I’ve been thinking about how to track transfers into a certain account, for example, a Health Savings Account or 401k. For example: 2014-06-01 Transfer Assets:Health Savings $500 Assets:Checking 2014-06-10 Doctor Expenses:Health $200 Assets:Health Savings 2014-07-01 Interest

Re: Tracking contributions to an account

2014-07-20 Thread Michael Norrish
How about ledger {reg|bal} assets:health.savings and payee transfer ? Of course, you need to be consistent about what you're doing in the payee field. Michael On 21/07/14 13:19, Nathan Grigg wrote: I've been thinking about how to track transfers into a certain account, for example, a

Re: Tracking contributions to an account

2014-07-20 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:19:07 -0700, Nathan Grigg wrote: I’ve been thinking about how to track transfers into a certain account, for example, a Health Savings Account or 401k. […] Hi Nathan, I use “transfer” accounts to keep track of transferring money. [1] Maybe you can try this:

Re: Tracking contributions to an account

2014-07-20 Thread Martin Blais
Michael: this is a clever solution, I had never thought of it. Mostly because I don't have good filtering capabilities yet. Nathan: I solved this problem by using a second currency to track the transfers, with an associated Income, Asset and Expense accounts in that currency. This requires no

Re: Tracking contributions to an account

2014-07-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathan Grigg nat...@nathangrigg.net [2014-07-20 20:19]: Now leger bal Assets:Health Savings” and “%Taxes=HSA Contribution” gives me $500. The downside is that tags can be difficult to work with. (For example, can you match a tag value by regex? Not that I can see) Yes, you can match tags: