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

First I should describe my philosophy. We’re all computer nerds here, I think, so we all know the value of simple, flexible abstractions with strong mathematical underpinnings. Relational databases, the lambda calculus, finite automata, context free grammars and so on. I believe

Re: Can I use the date in typed metadata to generate an automated posting?

On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 22:42:33 UTC+1, Peter Keen wrote: > > Personally I would love to hear why the cleared and uncleared subaccount > system is better. Is it just because of being able to add a date? You can > add a second "effective" date to a transaction like this[1]: > >

Re: Exchange a specific currency in report

I’m not aware of any built-in support for that. Perhaps you could add an automated transaction to it that converts all your INR assets to USD? -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Exchange a specific currency in report

On Friday, 2 June 2017 03:53:53 UTC+1, Ajoeibin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Manish Rai Jain > wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Is there a way to only exchange transactions from one currency; while >> keeping the others intact. I have txns in USD, AUD and INR. I

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

> > 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 record tieing your entry to the line item on > your bank

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

> > I feel like we've added a lot of work (assuming no automation) > Agreed. Without automation, it’s probably not worth the effort. In fact, this whole discussion started with me asking for help with the automation, and others asking why I would want to do such a thing. > without solving

Re: regular transactions

I don’t really understand what you’re doing. Is this a Python script that generates a list of transactions for ledger to consume? -- --- 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,

Re: Can I use the date in typed metadata to generate an automated posting?

No, I don’t like the cleared flag. The traditional approach to account reconciliation works very well for pen-and-paper systems, but when your accounts are computerised, the :cleared and :uncleared sub-account approach makes more sense. I’ll be happy to go into more detail if you’re

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

On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 18:58:10 UTC+1, John Wiegley wrote: > > >>>>> "PM" == Peter McArthur <peter.m...@gmail.com > writes: > > PM> The manual shows us how unclear the semantics are. Most people seem to > use > PM> auxiliary dat