Thanks so much, those examples helped me out and was just the kind of thing I was looking for. Adding the since/until qualifiers, which I hadn't tried yet and make a lot of sense might have helped also. Are those optional or mandatory with periodic entries?
On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 3:24:32 PM UTC-4, Lifepillar wrote: > > On 11/10/2017 17:19, David Houck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone use the budgetting and forecasting to model income in addition to > > expenses as shown in the example on page 94 of the latest ledger-cli PDF > > user guide? > > > > If so, how would the income be expressed in the periodic transaction > > block? I tried placing two ~ Monthly transactions in the ledger file, > > one for expenses, one for income, but that did not seem to work. > > Could you show us an example of what you are trying to do? > Something like this should work: > > ~ Monthly since 2017/01/01 until 2017/12/31 > Income -$5.000,00 > Assets > > ~ Monthly since 2017/01/01 until 2017/12/31 > Expenses:Housing:Rent $1.000,00 > Assets > > Then, to get a budget report for income > > ledger budget --real -p 'this year' income > > Or, if you want both income and expenses: > > ledger budget --real -p 'this year' income expenses > > Life. > > -- --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
