Your sample transaction is already correct. I would need to see all of your credit card transactions to pin point any errors. I'm guessing that when you originally did an opening balance on your credit card that you put a positive balance instead of a negative balance on the card?
On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 3:17:59 AM UTC+8 Oliver Hardy wrote: > 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/68522099-f028-4535-8c45-04a59cbd94b5n%40googlegroups.com.
