Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-09 Thread Oliver Hardy
I think I've fixed it. It wasn't a mis-spelling but close. At the beginning of my ledger file I had: Opening Balances Liabilities:CreditCard $1470.76 I changed that to: Liabilities:CreditCard $-1470.76 and the credit card balance now seems to be correct. My thanks to all who replied trying to

Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-09 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:37:53AM -0700, Oliver wrote in <0d814e00-e940-40cb-bf6b-6b48ed2768...@googlegroups.com>: I've solved the issue of the 2 entries at the end of my balance inquiry - it was the result of a misspelling in one of the entries. I still have the issue of the entry not being

Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-09 Thread Oliver Hardy
I've solved the issue of the 2 entries at the end of my balance inquiry - it was the result of a misspelling in one of the entries. I still have the issue of the entry not being correct. Running 'ledger balance' shows a credit card balance of $2,273.82. It should show $208.70. When I charge

Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-09 Thread Yuri Khan
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 07:12, Michael Cooper wrote: > In ledger negatives go between the commodity and the amount. So instead of > -$100 you should right $-100. Offtopic and possibly a point of contention: The “$” sign should be avoided anyway, because it’s ambiguous. It could mean a USD, a

Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Cooper [2020-08-08 17:12]: > In ledger negatives go between the commodity and the amount. So > instead of -$100 you should right $-100. Both should actually work fine and can be mixed. ledger -f d bal test1

Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-08 Thread Michael Cooper
In ledger negatives go between the commodity and the amount. So instead of -$100 you should right $-100. It looks to me like you have 2,300 of the commodity "$" and 2,500 of the commodity "-$", and ledger is treating them as separate, unrelated commodities. If you change your negatives to the

Re: Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-08 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 03:11:45PM -0700, Oliver wrote in <0371f69e-5077-4e93-a08c-3a7967ed4d...@googlegroups.com>: If I run a balance inquiry in ledger, at the end of a long list are 2 entries: -$2500.00 Liabilities:Credit_Card $2300.00 Liabilities:Credit_Card The first entry is how much I've

Credit card charges and payments

2020-08-08 Thread Oliver Hardy
If I run a balance inquiry in ledger, at the end of a long list are 2 entries: -$2500.00 Liabilities:Credit_Card $2300.00 Liabilities:Credit_Card The first entry is how much I've charged to the card. The second entry is my latest payment. The $200 difference is how much I currently owe on the