Re: How to handle expenses with monthly payments?

2023-08-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* 'francocalvo' via Beancount [2023-07-28 16:37]: > So, in my country we can pay stuff like clothes and many other things in > interest-free (sometimes) payments from 3 up to 18 months in some cases. > > For example, I bought two t shirts for ~10.000 ARS. I'll pay them in three > installments of

Price fetching, imputation, and PnL

2023-08-01 Thread Eric Altendorf
I'm having trouble understanding how automatic price fetching works, and I think it's being additionally complicated by questions of price imputation and maybe PnL accounts. Let's start with the simplest case. Consider (commodity declarations omitted for brevity): 2020-01-01 * "Buy BTC (from USD

Generating PnL tax docs with beancount v3

2023-08-01 Thread Eric Altendorf
I'm working with v3, and it seems that bean-report, bean-web, and Fava are all v2 only. bean-query works with v3, so I think that means that instead of taking an existing high-level reporting framework and adapting it to my needs, I am probably going to be working bottom-up building BQL queries.

Re: Questions for rigorous cap gains tracking

2023-08-01 Thread Eric Altendorf
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 8:39 AM Martin Blais wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 11:19 AM Eric Altendorf > wrote: > >> ... >> > I'd like to run my own rules for booking (mostly HIFO, except able to >> select a slightly lower basis lot if it qualifies for long term instead of >> short term cap gains

Re: Legs for asset exchanges out of operating currency

2023-08-01 Thread Eric Altendorf
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 9:09 AM Martin Blais wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 8:50 AM Eric Altendorf > wrote: > >> I'm trying to understand how to construct legs for a transaction where no >> legs are in the operating currency. For example, one might exchange USDT >> (Tether) for BTC. USDT is

Re: Best path for some simple importers

2023-08-01 Thread Eric Altendorf
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 9:12 AM Martin Blais wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 9:10 AM Eric Altendorf > wrote: > >> FWIW I went ahead and wrote my importers to the Beangulp API. I'm >> developing them here if anyone wants to follow along, contribute, or >> comment: >> https://github.com/erical

Re: How to transfer lots between accounts and how to query lot information?

2023-08-01 Thread Eric Altendorf
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 8:52 AM Martin Blais wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 6:44 AM Eric Altendorf > wrote: > >> Just found this thread. I think I'm encountering similar issues; >> difficulties tracking assets that have been transferred. >> >> Have there been any developments on this front si