Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread Douglas Philips
On 1/4/16 2:15 PM, John Wiegley wrote: >> Martin Blais writes: > >> Stay away from virtual postings, they break the accounting equation. You >> never need to use them, period. > > I disagree with this statement. I've used them to good effect in the past. > There are times

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread John Wiegley
> Martin Blais writes: > Stay away from virtual postings, they break the accounting equation. You > never need to use them, period. I disagree with this statement. I've used them to good effect in the past. There are times when you need a bit of flexibility to get exactly

Re: Managing combined books for spouses

2016-01-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > This is something I need to solve as well and I haven't come up with a > solution yet that I'm 100% happy with. I've changed the title of the > thread. Thanks for this. > What I came up with so far is this: > > - For joint

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread Ben Finney
Mark Scannell writes: > The challenge is that I have my partner's books, my books, and then > our joint books. As our finances are gradually being treated as one, > I'd like to be able to have Assets -> mine, Assets -> hers, Assets -> > ours, Expenses -> mine|hers|ours, etc.

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread John Wiegley
> Douglas Philips writes: > What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in something additional: > 2016/01/01 Fix the thing > Expenses:Thing $20.00 > Liabilities:Credit Card:Pursuit $-20.00 > (Budget:Pursuit)

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:04:38PM -0800, John Wiegley wrote: > > Douglas Philips writes: > > > What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in something additional: > > > 2016/01/01 Fix the thing > > Expenses:Thing $20.00 > >

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread John Wiegley
> Douglas Philips writes: > I read through the manual (2.6.3, but the v3 manual is the same)... There is > an example of using virtual accounts and automatic transactions to move > money into a tithing liability account. Then real transactions are used to > pay out

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread Douglas Philips
On 1/4/16 6:27 PM, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:04:38PM -0800, John Wiegley wrote: >>> Douglas Philips writes: >> >>> What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in something additional: >> >>> 2016/01/01 Fix the thing >>>

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread Martin Blais
Stay away from virtual postings, they break the accounting equation. You never need to use them, period. They are a crutch that misleads many into not figuring things out. Beancount doesn't even support them and I've doing everything without so far without problems (though it has forced me to

Re: Managing combined books for spouses

2016-01-04 Thread Martin Blais
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:51 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > - However, there are some things that belong to a specific person. > >Specifically, I track frequent flyer miles and other reward points > >

Re: Managing combined books for spouses

2016-01-04 Thread o1bigtenor
Greetings I deplore top posting but as I have little specific (albeit general I do) to say to what is described I will post separately. Before any comments, I am not an accountant nor an expert on ledger nor any other record keeping type program! Even before I got married a number of years ago