Hi, Thank you very much, I got confused by this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dW2vIjaXVJAf9hr7GlZVe3fJOkM-MtlVjvCO1ZpNLmg/edit (Beancount - Comparison / Differences) which made me think that currency transactions should never use the cost functionality.
It looks like the average cost booking method has also been implemented
in the mean time, so I can do it like this without having to bother
about lots (which I don't care about)
2017-06-01 *
Assets:CHF -30 CHF
Assets:USD 20 USD { 1.5 CHF }
2017-07-01 price USD 1.7 CHF
2017-08-01 *
Assets:USD -10 USD { * } @ 2 CHF
Assets:CHF 40 CHF
Income:USDTrading
> Hi Patrick,
>
> in order to compute PnL, you need to provide cost instead of price:
>
>
> 2017-06-01 * "Buy USD"
> Assets:CHF -30 CHF
> Assets:USD 20 USD { 1.5 CHF }
>
> 2017-07-01 price USD 1.7 CHF
>
> 2017-08-01 * "Sell USD"
> Assets:USD -20 USD { 1.5 CHF } @ 2 CHF
> Assets:CHF 40 CHF
> Income:PnL
>
>
> This way you could see a realized PnL of (2 CHF - 1.5 CHF) * 10 = 5 CHF
> in the account Income:PnL.
>
> To compute unrealized PnL, you could enable a built-in plugin:
>
>
> plugin "beancount.plugins.unrealized" "Unrealized"
>
>
> This way you could see an unrealized PnL in Assets:CHF:Unrealized.
>
>
> See official documentation for more information:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WjARst_cSxNE-Lq6JnJ5CC41T3WndEsiMw4d46r2694/edit
>
>
>
> 2017-09-18 11:14:22 patrick via Beancount <beancount@googlegroups.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've now tried to search for this for quite a bit but somehow I'm not
>> finding the right stuff or maybe not
>> understanding it right and I hope someone can help me.
>>
>> I would like to separate the currency gains from other income and would like
>> to also differentiate between realized and
>> unrealized gain.
>>
>> Let's take the following example
>>
>> 2017-06-01 * "Buy USD"
>> Assets:CHF -30 CHF
>> Assets:USD 20 USD @ 1.5 CHF
>>
>> 2017-07-01 price USD 1.7 CHF
>>
>> 2017-08-01 * "Sell USD"
>> Assets:USD -20 USD @ 2 CHF
>> Assets:CHF 40 CHF
>>
>>
>> • On 2017-07-01 I would have an unrealized currency gain of 4 CHF, how
>> would I see this?
>> • On 2017-08-02 I would have a realized currency gain of 10 CHF, how would
>> I set this up to see this as income?
>>
>>
>> One thing I found was
>> http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html
>>
>> Which looked quite interesting to me and seems to have a solution for this
>> but I'm struggling with implementing some of
>> the details of it.
>> I think in my case the concept of "adjusted cost base" seems to be the
>> simplest and make sense.
>>
>> So if I understood that correct I would need to do the following:
>>
>> 2017-06-01 *
>> Assets:CHF -30 CHF
>> Income:USDTrading 30 CHF
>> Income:USDTrading -20 USD
>> Assets:USD 20 USD
>>
>> 2017-07-01 price BTC 0.30 CHF
>>
>> 2017-08-01 *
>> Assets:USD -20 USD
>> Income:USDTrading 20 USD
>> Income:USDTrading -30 CHF
>> Income:USDTradingRealized -10 CHF
>> Assets:CHF 40 CHF
>>
>> What I get out of this
>>
>> • If I take the balance of Income:USDTradingRealized with the current
>> exchange rate this should reflect my unrealized
>> gain
>>
>>
>> A couple of things that confuse me
>>
>> • This feels somehow "wrong" as I'm no longer using the @ price annotation
>> and have this price implicit in the
>> difference between the amounts in one currency going into the USDTrading
>> and and out of the USDTrading in the other
>> currency.
>> • I need to manually calculate the -10 CHF realized gain
>> • Income:USDTradingRealized could actually be an income or an expense,
>> depending on current exchange rates
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this or point me in the right direction?
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
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