I'm struggling how to proper track the pocket money of my kid. I've a small notebook where we track the pocket money and expenses of my kid. As it want to spend sometimes money for toys, I decrease the amount in the notebook and spend it from my checking account. Now I was thinking, that I could also track it with beancount having an account Liabilities:Kid:Allowance and Assets:Allowance:Kid
The first one is my liability, the second one represents the notebook. Paying pocket money would look like this: 2023-03-05 * "Parents" "Pocket Money" Assets:Allowance:Kid 10 EUR Liabilities:Kid:Allowance -10 EUR This works fine and makes sense. But what I don't get: how to properly put an expense there when I buy it, eg: 2023-03-10 * "ABC TOYS" "Want to buy awesome toy" Assets:Allowance:Kid -5 EUR Liabilities:Kid:Allowance 5 EUR So the amount is substracted from the kid's money and my liability is reduced by this amount. All good here. But I still have to buy it: 2023-03-10 * "ABC TOYS" "Awesome toy" Assets:Bank:Checking -5 EUR Liabilities:Kid:Allowance 5 EUR The balances would look like this: Assets:Allowance:Kid 5 EUR Liabilities:Kid:Allowance 0 EUR Assets:Bank:Checking -5 EUR For Assets:Bank:Checking and Assets:Allowance:Kid it is ok, but Liabilities:Kid:Allowance should also be -5 EUR, as it should reflect the amount of money I need to give my kid in the future (Assets:Allowance:Kid). Somehow it does not work out, but I can't catch it. I guess the problem is, having an odd number of accounts involved, but I've no idea how to properly fix it. Any help is appreciated. Moritz -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/6ab3b91e-7d99-455f-9636-a142dabf8b23n%40googlegroups.com.
