That's what I supposed as well, but in the example <https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/examples/example.beancount> beancount file, the first reference to "Expenses:..." is inline (line 85):
2013-01-04 * "BANK FEES" "Monthly bank fee" Assets:US:BofA:Checking -4.00 USD Expenses:Financial:Fees 4.00 USD What's the difference between mine and theirs? On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:21 AM Florian Lindner <mailingli...@xgm.de> wrote: > Am 03.07.19 um 10:09 schrieb nathanlclem...@gmail.com: > > I'm trying to set up beancount (it takes a bit of work), but I'm running > into a strange error and was wondering if you could tell me what I'm doing > wrong: > > > > | > > $ cat data/simple.beancount > > *Banking > > 2018-01-01open Assets:UK:Barclays GBP > > 2019-01-01open Equity:Opening-Balances > > > > > > 2019-04-10*"OpenBarclays""" > > Assets:UK:Barclays 3705.81GBP > > Equity:Opening-Balances -3705.81GBP > > 2019-05-10*"TFL TRAVEL CHARGE TFL.GOV.UK/CP""" > > Assets:UK:Barclays -4.80GBP > > Expenses:Travel:PublicTransportation 4.80GBP > > $ bean-report-3.7data/simple.beancount balsheet >/dev/null > > > > | > > > > Is there some trick I'm missing? I thought "Expenses:..." didn't require > any account opening? > > That is not the case. You also need an open statement for all Expenses > accounts. Not sure if the root account "Expenses" needs an open statement, > but I don't think it's wise to book directly to it. > > Best, > Florian > > > > > Nathan > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Beancount" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto: > beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com <mailto: > beancount@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/eb270cd5-4b51-4311-b300-1b83f549c7df%40googlegroups.com > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/eb270cd5-4b51-4311-b300-1b83f549c7df%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beancount/29gfKFZjB9o/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/76770b6f-33f4-7710-98e2-68fd6f76b393%40xgm.de > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAM58W1rohNXRS9ySJafh1nxx%3DAGC2kEOhwUu%2Bhf-g0bt69dLkg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.