Re: Retaining cost bases through conversions

Right, but that's going to be the laborious brute force method, right? It would look like: 2011-01-01 * "Mutual fund exchange: upgrade share class" -33.234 ABC_COMMON {234.23 USD, 2017-10-01} @ 62.09 USD 4.123 ABC_PREMIUM {75.67 USD} -12.093 ABC_COMMON {345.23 USD, 2016-11-02} @ 62.09 USD

Re: Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

* Florian Lindner [2019-07-03 11:21]: > Not sure if the root account "Expenses" needs an open statement, but > I don't think it's wise to book directly to it. "Expenses" alone is not a valid account name in beancount. It needs a subaccount. -- Martin Michlmayr https://www.cyrius.com/ -- You

Re: Booking Company Reimbursements from a Pre-Loaded Debit Card

The way I see it, you have two options to account for what your company provides you via their debit card: (1) Income; (2) Contra-Expense. Since you don't want it to be "income", make it a contra expense account. For the first case (2019-03-01), the "What:Is:This:Account?" the contra expense

Re: Booking Company Reimbursements from a Pre-Loaded Debit Card

Dear Pranesh et al., I feel like a concept just clicked! Of course if I'm booking receiving the money as Income then spending it would be at my Expense. I don't think that I want to actually count this benefit as income then, especially since it is also non-taxable to me. If I do swap to an

Re: Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

That's exactly what I was missing. Slightly confusing that they're not in order. Thanks! On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 1:26 PM Martin Blais wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "inline" but there are open directives here: > >

Re: Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

Not sure what you mean by "inline" but there are open directives here: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/f0363bef42d27b3446b59d8790c094ff4952fdbc/examples/example.beancount#lines-6218 Keep in mind that ordering of directives in the file is not relevant, only the dates. On Wed, Jul 3,

Re: Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

That's what I supposed as well, but in the example beancount file, the first reference to "Expenses:..." is inline (line 85): 2013-01-04 * "BANK FEES" "Monthly bank fee" Assets:US:BofA:Checking

Re: Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

Am 03.07.19 um 10:09 schrieb nathanlclem...@gmail.com: > I'm trying to set up beancount (it takes a bit of work), but I'm running into > a strange error and was wondering if you could tell me what I'm doing wrong: > > | > $ cat data/simple.beancount > *Banking > 2018-01-01open Assets:UK:Barclays 

Re: Booking Company Reimbursements from a Pre-Loaded Debit Card

Alternatively, instead of accounting for the money from your company in the debit card as an income, you could account for it as a contra expense (i.e., an expense account with a *negative* balance, instead of the normal positive balance). Another example of the use of a contra expense account

Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

I'm trying to set up beancount (it takes a bit of work), but I'm running into a strange error and was wondering if you could tell me what I'm doing wrong: $ cat data/simple.beancount * Banking 2018-01-01 open Assets:UK:Barclays GBP 2019-01-01 open Equity:Opening-Balances