Re: Multiple posting costs in a transaction
Hi Alok, You need to book the remaining 0.01 EUR somewhere, so it doesn't get lost :-) E.g. it could be an Expenses:Bank Charges if it's due to your bank taking some fee out of it. Or maybe it's a rounding error, or the difference is due to some other reason. Personally, I usually book currency exchanges through a Currency account, so that any remainders accrue there. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Alok Parlikar happy...@gmail.com wrote: It seems I can't always use multiple posting costs in the same transaction. Here are two hypothetical test cases. Is this the expected behavior? *Case 1*: 2015/03/05 * Payee Assets:Bank$1.00 @ 1.02 EUR Income:Revenue-$1.00 @ 1.01 EUR Expected output of bal is that the transaction fails to balance. Seen output: $ ledger -f /tmp/x.dat bal $1.00 Assets:Bank $-1.00 Income:Revenue 0 *Case 2*: Add D entries for each currency. D $1.00 D 1.00 EUR 2015/03/05 * Payee Assets:Bank$1.00 @ 1.02 EUR Income:Revenue-$1.00 @ 1.01 EUR Now I get the expected error: $ ledger -f /tmp/x.dat bal While parsing file /tmp/x.dat, line 6: While balancing transaction from /tmp/x.dat, lines 4-6: 2015/03/05 * Payee Assets:Bank$1.00 @ 1.02 EUR Income:Revenue-$1.00 @ 1.01 EUR Unbalanced remainder is: 0.01 EUR Amount to balance against: 1.02 EUR Error: Transaction does not balance -- --- 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 to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Best regards, Daniël Bos Your government is reading your email. Slow them down with encryption. My public key: http://goo.gl/gms497 (4096 bit RSA, id EF2D5D91) Fingerprint : D8D0 9FBE F075 F709 7B52 2F73 326C 2123 EF2D 5D91 -- --- 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 to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Multiple posting costs in a transaction
Hi Daniel, Thanks. What makes me wonder is why in case 1, the ledger command doesn't throw an error even if the 0.01 EUR isn't accounted for :) As I was preparing my returns for the previous year, ledger ran through the whole journal balancing each transaction, and yet in the end I had a $2.95 left over, instead of the end balance showing 0. Searching for the error led me to a transaction that had multiple posting costs for the same commodities. Alok On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 5:39:30 PM UTC+5:30, Daniel Bos wrote: Hi Alok, You need to book the remaining 0.01 EUR somewhere, so it doesn't get lost :-) E.g. it could be an Expenses:Bank Charges if it's due to your bank taking some fee out of it. Or maybe it's a rounding error, or the difference is due to some other reason. Personally, I usually book currency exchanges through a Currency account, so that any remainders accrue there. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Alok Parlikar happ...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: It seems I can't always use multiple posting costs in the same transaction. Here are two hypothetical test cases. Is this the expected behavior? *Case 1*: 2015/03/05 * Payee Assets:Bank$1.00 @ 1.02 EUR Income:Revenue-$1.00 @ 1.01 EUR Expected output of bal is that the transaction fails to balance. Seen output: $ ledger -f /tmp/x.dat bal $1.00 Assets:Bank $-1.00 Income:Revenue 0 *Case 2*: Add D entries for each currency. D $1.00 D 1.00 EUR 2015/03/05 * Payee Assets:Bank$1.00 @ 1.02 EUR Income:Revenue-$1.00 @ 1.01 EUR Now I get the expected error: $ ledger -f /tmp/x.dat bal While parsing file /tmp/x.dat, line 6: While balancing transaction from /tmp/x.dat, lines 4-6: 2015/03/05 * Payee Assets:Bank$1.00 @ 1.02 EUR Income:Revenue-$1.00 @ 1.01 EUR Unbalanced remainder is: 0.01 EUR Amount to balance against: 1.02 EUR Error: Transaction does not balance -- --- 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 to ledger-cli+...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Best regards, Daniël Bos Your government is reading your email. Slow them down with encryption. My public key: http://goo.gl/gms497 (4096 bit RSA, id EF2D5D91) Fingerprint : D8D0 9FBE F075 F709 7B52 2F73 326C 2123 EF2D 5D91 -- --- 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 to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Multiple posting costs in a transaction
On 3/13/15 5:33 AM, Alok Parlikar wrote: Thanks. What makes me wonder is why in case 1, the ledger command doesn't throw an error even if the 0.01 EUR isn't accounted for :) It should, worth a bug report if it happens with the latest version. -- --- 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 to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
