Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-17 Thread Simon Michael
On 4/14/18 2:12 PM, Klauss Hass wrote: You could also use effective dates for that: 2018-01-04 TV Set purchase Expenses:Electronics. $1050 * Assets:Banking -$800 ; [=2018-01-04] ! Assets:Banking -$250 ; [=2018-02-04] Or just a regular posting date: 2018-01-04

Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-14 Thread o1bigtenor
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Johann Höchtl wrote: > > > On 2018-04-14 21:25, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:21:03 + >>> From: Taylor R Campbell >>> >>> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-14 Thread Klauss Hass
You could also use effective dates for that: 2018-01-04 TV Set purchase Expenses:Electronics. $1050 * Assets:Banking -$800 ; [=2018-01-04] ! Assets:Banking -$250 ; [=2018-02-04] > On 14 Apr 2018, at 15:24, Johann Höchtl wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-14 Thread Johann Höchtl
On 2018-04-14 21:25, Taylor R Campbell wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:21:03 + From: Taylor R Campbell Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Johann Höchtl 2018-02-04 * TV set delivery Deposit:Electronics $250

Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-14 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:21:03 + > From: Taylor R Campbell > > > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Johann Höchtl > > > > 2018-02-04 * TV set delivery > > Deposit:Electronics $250 > > Assets:Banking -$250

Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-14 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:24:58 -0700 (PDT) > From: Johann Höchtl > > Suppose I buy sthg. but delivery takes time. So I have to make a > "pre-payment" ? / is this the same as a deposit? How would I structure that > in ledger? > > Instead of > > 2018-01-04 * TV set

Re: Deposit money to be cleared at a later point in time

2018-04-14 Thread Craig Earls
"If it makes sense to you, than that is what you should do." I should put that in the manual. On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Johann Höchtl wrote: > Hi, > > one bigger problem is that language semantics at times makes it really > hard to properly understand the