Re: How are you handling xxx?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017, at 02:40 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I have this propensity to travel and/or to purchase this from out of > country. > This means that my credit card amount isn't the same as that displayed > on the invoice. > So I enter from the invoice and then adjust later when

Re: Work Perks and Ledger

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 01:01 PM, pete.david.cl...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I love my plaintext accounting, but I've finally come across a problem > that I don't even know how to approach... > > I get a really good work perk, where I have an allowance of £1000 to > buy clothes at a

Re: "Shadow Accounts" to Track Ownership Stakes

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 06:26 PM, APL wrote: > I'd like to use Ledger to track the finances of a two-person > household, recording transactions to both aggregate household accounts > and individual ownership stakes. > > Two questions: > * Is there a preferred way to do this? > * Supposing I

Re: Sorting lines in reports

On Sun, Jan 1, 2017, at 07:59 PM, Martin Blais wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jakob Mattsson > wrote: >> Yeah, I've been doing something along those lines (slightly altering >> the names of my accounts) to get it to the order I want - or close >> at

Re: Questions

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 05:34 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I have been using ledger-cli for a number of years and it works and > that is very good (even though most would view my grasp of the whole > project is poor (I've learned to do what I need to do and nothing > else)). > > Am in

Re: Questions

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 09:39 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Brian Exelbierd <b...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017, at 05:34 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > >> Greetings > >> > >> I have been using ledger-cli for a number o

Re: Budgeting and automatic transactions

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016, at 01:04 AM, Tom Hunt wrote: > I'm currently attempting to set up an envelope budget, as described in > various links from plaintextaccounting.org. In pursuit of this, I've > set up the following automatic transaction: > > > = expr (account =~ /^Expenses:/ and

Annual Averages Report

I am not seeing a report command line that will give me a list of all accounts and their average amounts for a given period. For example, this will give me one account: ledger -f all.ledger --empty register Expense:Food -M --average -p "last 12 months" but I don't see way to see every Expense

Re: Multi-Level Budget error

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016, at 04:23 PM, Lifepillar wrote: > On 16/12/2016 16:06, Lifepillar wrote: > > On 16/12/2016 15:43, Lifepillar wrote: > >> On 16/12/2016 12:22, Brian Exelbierd wrote: > >>> In the ledger file at the bottom I set up a multi-level budget. If

Re: Monthly average expenses for budgeting

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016, at 01:39 PM, Manish Rai Jain wrote: > Thanks! That definitely helps. > > I think the documentation needs updating (documentation being one of > my main gripes with ledger). I'd suggest a solution: Host the > documentation on wiki, which would allow community to build and

Re: Combining within entries in a single posting

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016, at 04:30 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hi. > > Please consider the following file: > > 2016/01/01 * SalaryBank10,000.00 INRIncome:Salary- > 7,000.00 INRIncome:Allowances-3,000.00 INR > > 2016/02/01 * SalaryBank8,000.00 INRIncome:Salary- >

Multi-Level Budget error

In the ledger file at the bottom I set up a multi-level budget. If I run the commands below, everything works until I restrict to a third level budget line. ---commands-working-8x--- $ ledger -f budget-test.ldg budget $1000$5000 $-4000 20% Department 1 $500

Re: Colleagues want me to use GnuCash at Work

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, at 08:55 AM, James wrote: > Hi, > So my colleagues at work feel that I should use GNUCash for accounting > purpose at work.I have tried using GNUCash but its rather very > clunky(especially after using Ledger). > At my work place we process on average 100 transactions a day

Re: Why I don’t want to use auxiliary dates for bank reconciliation … or anything else

On Wed, May 31, 2017, at 04:39 AM, Peter McArthur wrote: > This topic arose in the context of bank reconciliation, so, let’s > talk about bank reconciliation. The traditional, pen-and-paper way of > doing it is: > 1. Go through your accounts and your bank statement, matching them > item

Re: Why I don’t want to use auxiliary dates for bank reconciliation … or anything else

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017, at 06:17 AM, Peter McArthur wrote: >> 1. This seems to make it no easier to detect and correct errors than >>a tick mark on your bank statement. To add the final lines you >>still have to go through the statement line by line.>> >> >> 2. There still seems to be no