>>> "TP" == Tobias Pfeiffer <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, > sorry it took a while. No worries, I am quite busy myself.. [Snip]... Thanks for this explanation. >> I wounder that this common situation is so hm difficult to achieve > However, my understanding of double-entry accounting is that it is > usually used to manage finances of *one* entity. There is an inherently > one-sided view of writing things down, credit and debit flip meaning > (or sign) once you view from the other side. I am not sure how well > this way of writing things down works when you want to describe a > "global state" of things, rather than the view from one single entity. > This is what I meant when I said "somewhat contrary to the idea of > double-entry accounting". I see, that make sense. > across participants. (This would be similar to apps like Kittysplit < > https://www.kittysplit.com/en/> where each expense of one user is split > between participants and then settled at the end. Note that settling > expenses is not a trivial problem once more than two players are > involved, cf. <https://stackoverflow.com/q/877728/3663881>) Very interesting thanks > You could also model this from the perspective of one of the involved > users. Rather than keeping the expense as a whole and splitting the > income side of things in automated transactions so that it becomes [Snip]... > Even though in the global view of things, flowers for 20 EUR and a tree > for 140 EUR were bought, in your expenses account only your share of > things ever shows up, not the total price. I think this may be much > simpler, but you don't have the total overview of what was paid or > whether a credit card was used by User2 etc. Right this is why I stick to your solution, thanks again. -- --- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/871r1cdezi.fsf%40mat.ucm.es.
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