I started as treasurer for a charity a year ago - the first time I had done anything of the sort. I chose ledger because I prefer text based files - no regrets. At year end I ran some balance reports - all OK as usual. Then I did a --flat balance report to export data to R. And I got rubbish out.
The problems, as far as I can tell, is centred on the account structure. I have, for eg, Income accounts that look like this: Income:AA:BB £99 Income:AA:BB:CC £99 Income:AA:BB:CC £99 An ordinary balance report is fine. But a --flat balance gets confused over whether to add just the first of the lines above (depth 3) or the second and third (depth 4). I can't remember which of them it did (the first I think) but it was, luckily, so far wrong that it couldn't be missed. I suspect people are thinking 'what an idiot'. It is blindingly obvious with hindsight that the first line must be treated as a 'dummy' account. Maybe there are instructions as to this problem in the manual, but if there are I idiotically missed them. I had to manually edit the whole journal file, which serves me right I suppose. However, I wonder if the manual ought to be more explicit as to the allowable format for the account structure? richard (tyro treasurer) -- --- 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.
