Re: 'equity' cannot accept virtual and non-virtual postings to the same account

2014-05-18 Thread Martin Blais
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 9:04 PM, I'm starting to think that I should start creating a distinct expense account for each tax year, because that's how both the Canadian and US governments handle it: amounts that you post get booked to a particular year I'd use tags. That would work

Re: 'equity' cannot accept virtual and non-virtual postings to the same account

2014-05-18 Thread Lifepillar
In article CAK21+hObT7wAsaUVtaWJ00EZbCNCZp3oSd3RUg=pq5caah+...@mail.gmail.com, Martin Blais bl...@furius.ca wrote: Now the truly, wonderfully great thing is how much *power* we have using our little text files. Totally agree. The only thing that could compete (and possibly be superior)

Re: 'equity' cannot accept virtual and non-virtual postings to the same account

2014-05-18 Thread Lifepillar
In article 20140517224631.ga27...@jirafa.cyrius.com, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: Oh, you probably meant gross income of $5200 consisting of $5100 taxable income and a $100 tax-exempt allowance. Sure, sorry for not being more explicit. Thank you all, I've learned a lot! As I said,

Possible replacement for Quicken - can somebody answer this StackExchange question?

2014-05-18 Thread johannesjh
I just stumbled about a stackexchange question about personal finance software: Possible replacement for Quicken, http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/3070/possible-replacement-for-quicken/3080 I have been using quicken to track my financial life for about 10 years now and am generally

Re: Possible replacement for Quicken - can somebody answer this StackExchange question?

2014-05-18 Thread Craig Earls
Importing 10 years of quicken data would be problematic. There is also the unwritten I use the GUI and don't have to think much about it... On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:23 AM, johanne...@gmail.com wrote: I just stumbled about a stackexchange question about personal finance software: Possible

Re: Possible replacement for Quicken - can somebody answer this StackExchange question?

2014-05-18 Thread Johannes
I answered this: Since the company behind Mint and Quicken is a problem for you, you may want to consider an open source, offline solution. In this direction, GnuCash has already been proposed in another answer. Alternatively, you may want to consider the text-only, open-source, command line

Re: 'equity' cannot accept virtual and non-virtual postings to the same account

2014-05-18 Thread John Wiegley
Martin Blais bl...@furius.ca writes: It would be useful to build a list of real-world use cases of virtual postings and see if they can all be solved without or not - make a compelling argument about the need for virtual postings. I'd be interested to know your solution to the following

Re: query metadata in automated transactions?

2014-05-18 Thread John Wiegley
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: = expr recpt = tag(Receipt) and expr account =~ /^expenses:(transportation|food|books)/ (Assets:Receipts) ((recpt 0) ? recpt : 1) Only use expr at the beginning. John -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Building on Debian Wheezy with clang: seg fault on 78AB4B87 9188F587 regress tests

2014-05-18 Thread John Wiegley
thierry th...@free.fr writes: BTW my first commit on C++ code! :-) Woohoo!! We need more C++ contributors. John -- --- 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

Re: query metadata in automated transactions?

2014-05-18 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com writes: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: = expr recpt = tag(Receipt) and expr account =~ /^expenses:(transportation|food|books)/ (Assets:Receipts) ((recpt 0) ? recpt : 1) Only use expr at the beginning. Still getting the same error

Re: 'equity' cannot accept virtual and non-virtual postings to the same account

2014-05-18 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Martin Blais bl...@furius.ca writes: [...] It would be useful to build a list of real-world use cases of virtual postings and see if they can all be solved without or not - make a compelling argument about the need for virtual postings. I have a fairly simple use-case, the system for which