On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 20:26, Oliver Hardy <ohardy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My ~/ledger.dat file so far: > Assets:Checking: $1,669.73 > Liabilities:Credit_Card: $1,929.46 > Equity:Opening Balance > > 2021/01/01 (#1004) > Expenses:Rent $1,000.00 > Assets:Checking > > 2021/01/04 IRS > Assets:Checking $600.00 ; stimulus check > Income:Misc > ~ > Running ledger bal: > ~$ledger bal > $-400.00 Assets:Checking > $1,000.00 Expenses:Rent > $-600.00 Income:Misc > -------------------- > If I have $1,669.73 in Checking, pay out $1,000.00 in rent and receive a > $600.00 stimulus check which goes into Checking, shouldn't my checking > balance be $1,629.73 and not $400.00? I understand ledger is ignoring the > Opening Balance but I don't know why. You don’t have an opening balance. You have three unintelligible lines at the top, and then two valid transactions. Format your opening balance as a transaction: 2020-12-31 Opening Balance Assets:Checking $1,669.73 Liabilities:Credit_Card $1,929.46 Equity:Opening Balance -- --- 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/CAP_d_8V17j_XesL7R-bPHVsF3UNzT0KX-xU3Kpocto6ddA-DzA%40mail.gmail.com.