You need to define commodities for everything you're using beangrow for, in
your case I imagine this is RDFN and SQ. You don't need to define the
metadata in your bullet item 3.
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 8:40 PM Bman Q <mplo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys hi
>
> First of all i want to thank Martin for superb work! I have been using
> beancount for 2 years and flexibility / functionality beancount provides
> are simply amazing. I always recommend beancount on plain text accounting
> sub and now have 1 extra reason to suggest it :)
>
> Secondly i have several questions / issues with installation and will
> appreciate your help:
> 1. should i use "v2 master + beangrow repo" OR "beancount 2.3.3" ?
>
> 2. when i run configure.py, it generates empty file, what can be the
> reason for this?
> i run:
> "python scripts/configure.py -v b.beancount > conf-returns"
> screen output:
> INFO : Reading ledger: b.beancount
> INFO : Inferring configuration.
> INFO : Done.
> but file is empty
>
> My accounts structure seems fine:
> Assets:Business:...
> Assets:Cash
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash USD
> Income:Investing:CSchwab:Interest USD
> Income:Investing:CSchwab:Gains USD
> Income:Investing:CSchwab:MiscCredits USD
> Expenses:Investing:CSchwab:Fees USD
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:RDFN RDFN
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:SQ SQ
> ...
> Assets:Personal:...
>
> (i never received dividends so don't have accounts for them yet)
>
> 3. Do i understand it right that the only change we need to do in main
> beancount file is add signature handlers?
> Basically
> 2019-09-03 * "Buy; REDFIN CORP 00500"
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:RDFN 326 RDFN {15.55 USD,
> 2019-09-03}
> Expenses:Investing:CSchwab:Fees 4.95 USD
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash -5074.25 USD
>
> will become
> 2019-09-03 * "Buy; REDFIN CORP 00500"
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:RDFN 326 RDFN {15.55 USD,
> 2019-09-03}
> flow: ASSET
> Expenses:Investing:CSchwab:Fees 4.95 USD
> flow: EXPENSES
> Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash -5074.25 USD
> flow: CASH
>
> 4. I tried creating simple config file myself
> investments {
> # Accounts at Schwab.
> investment {
> currency: "RDFN"
> asset_account: "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:RDFN"
> cash_accounts: "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash"
> }
> investment {
> currency: "SQ"
> asset_account: "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:SQ"
> cash_accounts: "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:Cash"
> }
> }
>
> groups {
> group {
> name: "stocks"
> investment: "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:RDFN"
> investment: "Assets:Investing:CSchwab:SQ"
> }
> group {
> name: "all"
> investment: "Assets:Investing:*"
> currency: "USD"
> }
> }
>
> but it resulted in error:
> (using beancount master and beangrow repo)
> python beangrow/compute_returns.py b.beancount conf-returns out
> R:\b\b-office>python beangrow/compute_returns.py b.beancount conf-returns
> out
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "beangrow/compute_returns.py", line 105, in <module>
> main()
> File "beangrow/compute_returns.py", line 80, in main
> account_data_map = investments.extract(
> File "R:\b\b-office\beangrow\investments.py", line 553, in extract
> account_data = [process_account_entries(pruned_entries,
> config.investments, aconfig,
> File "R:\b\b-office\beangrow\investments.py", line 553, in <listcomp>
> account_data = [process_account_entries(pruned_entries,
> config.investments, aconfig,
> File "R:\b\b-office\beangrow\investments.py", line 399, in
> process_account_entries
> comm = commodity_map[currency] if currency else None
> KeyError: 'RDFN'
>
> (using beancount 2.3.2)
> R:\b\b-office>python returns/compute_returns.py b.beancount conf-returns
> out
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "returns/compute_returns.py", line 97, in <module>
> main()
> File "returns/compute_returns.py", line 73, in main
> config = configlib.read_config(args.config, args.filter_reports,
> accounts)
> File "R:\b\b-office\returns\config.py", line 44, in read_config
> text_format.Merge(infile.read(), config)
> File
> "C:\Users\Btycoon\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\text_format.py",
> line 696, in Merge
> return MergeLines(
> File
> "C:\Users\Btycoon\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\text_format.py",
> line 770, in MergeLines
> return parser.MergeLines(lines, message)
> File
> "C:\Users\Btycoon\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\text_format.py",
> line 795, in MergeLines
> self._ParseOrMerge(lines, message)
> File
> "C:\Users\Btycoon\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\text_format.py",
> line 817, in _ParseOrMerge
> self._MergeField(tokenizer, message)
> File
> "C:\Users\Btycoon\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\text_format.py",
> line 907, in _MergeField
> raise tokenizer.ParseErrorPreviousToken(
> google.protobuf.text_format.ParseError: 15:1 : Message type
> "beancount.returns.Config" has no field named "groups".
>
> 5. Could someone please share sample beancount and returns config files?
> On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 9:13:59 PM UTC-5 bl...@furius.ca wrote:
>
>> Move to https://github.com/beancount/beangrow/issues/6
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 6:44 AM redst...@gmail.com <redst...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a case that doesn't produce the desired output: a transfer out of
>>> an account, in-kind. This gets categorized as an ASSET_OTHERASSET. I'm not
>>> sure I understand the reasoning for why this category cashflows out the
>>> *cost basis* of the other asset. Shouldn't it be outflowing the market
>>> value instead?
>>>
>>> More generally, in-kind transfers (in or out) don't seem to work
>>> correctly for this reason. They only work if both source and target
>>> accounts are considered together in a group.
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> option "operating_currency" "USD"
>>> plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices"
>>>
>>> 2005-01-01 commodity USD
>>> 2005-01-01 commodity HOOL
>>>
>>> 2000-01-01 open Assets:Brokerage:USD
>>> 2000-01-01 open Assets:Brokerage:HOOL "STRICT"
>>> 2000-01-01 open Assets:Zero-Sum-Accounts:Transfers "STRICT"
>>>
>>> 2020-01-01 * "Buy"
>>> Assets:Brokerage:HOOL 1000 HOOL {1 USD}
>>> Assets:Brokerage:USD
>>>
>>> 2020-10-01 price HOOL 1.1 USD
>>>
>>> 2020-10-02 * "Transfer out, in kind"
>>> Assets:Brokerage:HOOL -1000 HOOL {1 USD}
>>> Assets:Zero-Sum-Accounts:Transfers 1000 HOOL {1 USD}
>>>
>>> Config:
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> investments {
>>> investment {
>>> currency: "HOOL"
>>> asset_account: "Assets:Brokerage:HOOL"
>>> cash_accounts: "Assets:Brokerage:USD"
>>> dividend_accounts: "Income:Dividends:Brokerage:HOOL"
>>> }
>>> }
>>> groups {
>>> group {
>>> name: "currency.HOOL"
>>> investment: "Assets:Brokerage:HOOL"
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Results:
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Desired (meaningful) output: 12% CAGR
>>> Actual output: 0.00% (since the cashflow is -1000 for the buy, and +1000
>>> for the transfer).
>>>
>>>
>>>
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