On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:11 AM Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just had a light bulb moment and wanted to share. (This idea is > obviously to many but I am a bit slow ;) > > I have an Assets:Transfer account which I use for transfers. So when I > transfer from bank A to B it goes A -> Assets:Transfer and > Assets:Transfer -> B. Same for credit card payments, etc. Eventually > (or sometimes) Assets:Transfer should go to 0. > > Of course, sometimes I don't end up with 0 and I need to find out why. > This can be tricky since there are so many transactions. I ended up > with -339.47 today and of course there was no transaction for 339.47. > So I was wondering how to make it easier. I was thinking: "what if I > could just match all amounts". > > Turns out you can: > > ledger -f 2018 bal assets:transfer -l "commodity == 'USD'" --account > "abs(amount)" > 229.45 USD 229.45 USD:Assets:Transfer > -253.22 USD 253.22 USD:Assets:Transfer > -315.70 USD 315.70 USD:Assets:Transfer > -------------------- > -339.47 USD > > Now I can figure out where the matching transactions are. > Greetings
I treat bank to bank or even avccount to account transfers as a transaction. Then ledger is quite happy to let me know when things don't balance. You bet its extra work - - - but when she balances - - - there are no errors! Just one very pleased user of 'ledger'!! Dee -- --- 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.
