+1 to "do what works for you". With personal concerns spanning 4 countries and complicated tax reporting obligations in one, I have quite a number of accounts: I live in country ZZ, own property in QQ and have investments or assets in YY and XX...
❯ for c in :ZZ: :QQ: :YY: :XX:; do echo -n $c" "; bean-report main.bean accounts | fgrep $c | wc -l ; done :ZZ: 249 :QQ: 224 :YY: 28 :XX: 6 So ~250 accounts for my household tracking (family of 4), homeowner. Similar number for dealing with taxes in QQ. (this goes up annually as I make a new TY20XX hierarchy). YY is where I used to live, and haven't cut all ties (some investments and a pension). XX is just somewhere I have a bank account ... Alan On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 12:08:27 PM UTC Ajoeibin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:21 PM melb...@gmail.com <melb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I am hoping to understand how other folks setup their > accounts/sub-accounts and from it see if I can do something better to > layout my accounts. Of course, there is no write or wrong answer and I can > do whatever I wish. > > > > I feel inundated by the number of expense accounts I have and I am > wondering if I can do something else - perhaps using tags. Though then I > might just be moving the problem from one place to another. > > > > Greetings > > I will start by echoing Mr. Marcin - - - - your books have to be > useful for YOU. > So - - - if you have too many accounts - - - well then you need less > accounts. > How many accounts you need is highly dependent on how you're using > your books. So you need to answer that question for yourself first. Then, > and > only then can you go on to check your list of account. > > Just for perspective - - - my document with a list of all my accounts > - - - well it > does include explanations so every line isn't an account - - but - - - > the doc is > some 58 pages long. Before you shriek in horror - - - that covers some > small > businesses and my personal stuff. Its that detailed because I really do > want > to know where the money goes and all the accounts make for great clarity. > Are all the accounts necessary - - - - well there are about some few > hundred > accounts - - - the rest are subaccounts. > > Its all about what works for you and your needs. > > So - - - get creative - - - and - - - - when you're done with that - - > - why let us > know what you did and how your changes helped you. Then not only do you > benefit but then others here will get the benefit of your experimenting. > > This list is a wonderful tool that I very much rely on for getting done > what I > need done in my recordkeeping!!! > > HTH > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/be813c6e-ae88-43bb-afec-eade01085cf7n%40googlegroups.com.
