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
> 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
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
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.
> 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)
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
> >
> 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
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
>>>
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
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
> >
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
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