I understand what you are saying. My qusetion now is: How do I fix it? Do I edit my ledger file and put a minus sign before all credit card transactions? Or only before payments I've made to the card? Is the way I enter my credit card transactions incorrect? Do I go to the start of the file and edit opening balances?
Thanks On Monday, September 21, 2020 at 1:57:54 PM UTC-4 gsc...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Ordinarily a credit card would have a negative balance (that is, the > balance should be $-333.07) so that when you do a spend on the credit card > the balance will becomes -$333.07 -$55.00 = -$388.07. > > If your credit card has a positive balance then it means that you made > deposits that totaled more than what you owed on your credit card and that > would mean that your new balance is as reported. Something tells me that > this is not the case ...... > > On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 1:32:30 AM UTC+8 Oliver Hardy wrote: > >> If I run: >> ledger -p sep reg credit >> I get a listing of all credit card transactions for the month of >> September. >> My problem is that the running balance is always decreasing instead of >> increasing. >> >> I have a balance of $333.07. I enter a transaction for $55.00 >> 2020/09/01 Health >> Expenses:Insurance $55.00 >> Liabilities:Credit_Card >> The running balance shown on the report is now $248.34 ($333.07 - $55.00). >> Shouldn't it be $581.41 ($333.07 + $55.00)? >> >> Am I doing something wrong or is this how double entry accounting is >> supposed to work? >> >> Thank you >> > -- --- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/ba325108-ffba-47fd-bdcf-9b12c59aae5bn%40googlegroups.com.
