Hi, What I do:
Payment to the kid every month: 2022-09-01 * "Kid" "Pay for September" Assets:Kid 10.00 CHF Liabilities:Kid A game buy: 2022-09-20 * "Sony" "Buy a game" Assets:Kid -5.25 CHF Assets:PayPal -5.25 CHF ;my account Liabilities:Kid 5.25 CHF Expenses:Kid:Games 5.25 CHF I didn't find to make otherwise... But also open to comments ;-) Tino. On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 10:00:21 PM UTC+1 Moritz wrote: > 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/5ccc0c74-8695-4f69-badf-b5b395e828f9n%40googlegroups.com.
