balance sum -- meaning

2023-09-25 Thread Albert R. Pyott
Hello, I have a negative balance in my accounts when I run the "bal" command (no other options). What does this mean? Thank you! -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: A how to question - -

2023-09-25 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2023-09-25, at 17:26, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sept 2023 at 21:38, o1bigtenor wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 8:59 AM Enrico Lamperti wrote: >> > >> > I believe it's still income, but you can put it in a different category (I >> > use Income:Other, maybe Income:Gifts could work if

Re: A how to question - -

2023-09-25 Thread Yuri Khan
On Mon, 25 Sept 2023 at 21:38, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 8:59 AM Enrico Lamperti wrote: > > > > I believe it's still income, but you can put it in a different category (I > > use Income:Other, maybe Income:Gifts could work if you believe you'll be > > gifted money often) > >

Re: A how to question - -

2023-09-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 25 Sep 2023 at 09:37, o1bigtenor wrote: > As soon as you even think of calling it 'Income' the tax man wants his hunk. I have used income:taxable and income:taxfree in the past to disambiguate. Tax free income, at least in the UK, does exist in the form of, for instance, interest from

Re: A how to question - -

2023-09-25 Thread o1bigtenor
Greetings On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 8:59 AM Enrico Lamperti wrote: > > I believe it's still income, but you can put it in a different category (I > use Income:Other, maybe Income:Gifts could work if you believe you'll be > gifted money often) As soon as you even think of calling it 'Income' the

Re: A how to question - -

2023-09-25 Thread Enrico Lamperti
I believe it's still income, but you can put it in a different category (I use Income:Other, maybe Income:Gifts could work if you believe you'll be gifted money often) If you really want to avoid using Income, you could do some juggling using Assets:Receivables:... As a last resort you could

A how to question - -

2023-09-25 Thread o1bigtenor
Greetings Any idea on how to enter the inflow of capital that is a gift - - - so its NOT income - - - ideas? (I did check the manual nothing included. This is a bit more an unusual area in accounting but I'm not sure of how to accurately log this.) TIA -- --- You received this message