On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:04:38PM -0800, John Wiegley wrote: > >>>>> Douglas Philips <douglas.phil...@gmail.com> writes: > > > What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in something additional: > > > 2016/01/01 Fix the thing > > Expenses:Thing $20.00 > > Liabilities:Credit Card:Pursuit $-20.00 > > (Budget:Pursuit) $20.00 > > Now you can just do a balance query of Assets:Checking against Budget and see > what the net result will be. Or use --real to strip away the budget, or just > don't query against Budget.
I'm really happy using the imperative (I forget the term) virtual accounts (surrounded by []), it maintains the accounting equation, I can easily query how much is really in my checking vs how much is unallocated to ther budget things, and I can square things up periodically if I choose. Jeff -- "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.
