On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:45:28PM -0700, Leonardo Melo wrote: > Not sure it will help in any effective way. But I do the same with my > accounts and use my internet banking to match my postings. What I do for > that scenario is to transfer the owed money to one of my saving accounts > (my bank lets me have "as many as I want"). So that way the money is > stored away from my checking account, and it stills traceable using Ledger > and my internet banking. > Hope this helps =D
I move things into savings if I know they're going to be there a while and don't want to be tempted. For shorter term things, I'll use virtual accounts for most of this stuff, but I know a lot of people are uncomfortable with them (I always use [] and never ()) [Savings:Vacation:Adirondacks]. I can then query with real if I want to match my bank and with both if I want "how much isn't allocated". Another option is to transfer the money into Assets:Checkings:OwedTax That'll show up in your subtotal properly so you can compare, but you can see that it is allocated... > Hello, > I am learning how to use ledger and I have a question. > One think I really like is that I can check that everything is right by > checking the current balance of my Assets:Checkings entry, if it's the > exact same as my online banking app says then I can trust I am keeping > the journal properly. > I receive my salary from my clients and I need to pay taxes to the > goverment at the end of the year, so for each client I need to deduct > taxes and keep this value somewhere until the end of the year. I would > like to track this value using Ledger also. > My first thought was to write a transaction from Assets:Checkings, where > I get my salary, to Liabilities:OwedTax but then Assets:Checkings no > longer matches the exact value I have on my online banking. This is > correct, actually. since I cannot use that money and is not mine, I owe > it to the government, but makes it difficult to track how much money I > actually have. > Is there any way to keep track of this owed tax and how much money I can > use (checkings - tax) and at the same time have a balance entry for the > exact amount my online banking app shows? > I thought about using these virtual accounts but I am not sure if it's > the way to go. > Thank you for your help. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [1]ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit [2]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 2. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -- Mark Twain -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
