Thanks Simon
I was referring to the combination of requirements below, which seems to
not quite fit ledger. I don't mind so much how I achieve these with
particular features:
* Keep track of account balances (specifically bank balance)
intermittently without recording all transactions (either
On 10/20/17 1:46 PM, John Lee wrote:
I guess I should either dust off my very dusty C++ and try to fix it, or
try one of the ledger spinoffs like beancount... maybe there are
beancount / hledger people here who can comment re whether those systems
have ways to tackle the problem from the thread
Thanks for this, but I wonder if you have read the previous thread I
linked to fully? It discusses what I believe (from admittedly only a
quick scan) are the same techniques you describe here, and the problems
I ran into with those.
Or did I miss something?
Thanks again, I do appreciate any
Ah, I misunderstood your original problem, apologies.
Dodging your question again (since I really don't know the answer), I've
also found that storing values in non-leaf accounts gets me into all sorts
of trouble. It generally is confusing and my automation doesn't understand
it. If this example
Hi Michael
If you take a look at my previous thread here from a week or so back
you'll see the problem you run into when trying to apply that to the
transactions I posted in this thread.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ledger-cli/bqu-qNr6cjM
Consider:
2017-10-01 * Opening Balance
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but this is how I do these
kind of balance checks:
2017/01/01 * Opening Balance
Assets:Checking$1000
Equity:Opening
2017/01/02 * Savings
Assets:Savings $100
Assets:Checking
2017/01/03 * Reconcile
[Assets:Checking] $0 = $900
An example that currently has me puzzled: the first assert below passes,
and the second fails. I'm interested both in learning why in this
particular case, and more important, learning how to use ledger to debug
problems like this in general.
2017-10-01 * Opening Balance
