Re: Categorised transactions and summary reports

2018-03-22 Thread o1bigtenor
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Dániel Fancsali wrote: > Well, > > To be honest, it's a rather long read, but I really do recommend to read > the docs, it's really an eye-opener: https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ > ledger3.html > > At least, it was for me, it was, as I

Re: Categorised transactions and summary reports

2018-03-22 Thread Dániel Fancsali
Well, To be honest, it's a rather long read, but I really do recommend to read the docs, it's really an eye-opener: https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html At least, it was for me, it was, as I didn't really know where to start with accounting, and I couldn't really even ask a decent

Re: Categorised transactions and summary reports

2018-03-22 Thread Daniel Scott
Great, thanks. I think it's just a question of me getting a hang of the terminology. On 22 March 2018 at 14:31, Dániel Fancsali wrote: > Hello Dan, > > Well, there are several ways you can do this, actually. Even looking at > your example, it kind of suggests a way of doing

Re: Categorised transactions and summary reports

2018-03-22 Thread Dániel Fancsali
Hello Dan, Well, there are several ways you can do this, actually. Even looking at your example, it kind of suggests a way of doing this. Categories, or "accounts" in beancounter-speak can be hierarchical, so you could do: Expenses:Rent:Property A Expenses:Rent:Property B

Categorised transactions and summary reports

2018-03-22 Thread Daniel Scott
Hi, Hopefully a simple question. I'm looking for something to help with my taxes. I need to add multiple categories to each transaction, and then generate a report for an arbitrary period which shows the total in each category. For example: 1/1/2017 £10 rent,property,propertyA 1/1/2017 £10