* psionl0 [2021-12-10 00:32]:
> "I thought that by adding the ; [=DATE] in methods 2 and 3 I was recording
> the day the paypal account was settled, am I wrong?"
> You are putting the date in a comment which means it has no effect on the
> reports that Ledger generates.
It's actually valid
"I thought that by adding the ; [=DATE] in methods 2 and 3 I was recording
the day the paypal account was settled, am I wrong?"
You are putting the date in a comment which means it has no effect on the
reports that Ledger generates. It is not necessarily wrong but I prefer to
see a one to one
Thanks, for Peter Selinger's tutorial link.
četrtek, 9. december 2021 ob 01:27:53 UTC+1 je oseba Martin Michlmayr
napisala:
> I don't have time to think through your samples right now and I hope
> someone else will respond.
>
> However, I wanted to mention Peter Selinger's tutorial on multiple
Thanks.
"[...] I prefer method 1 since it correctly records the day the paypal
account is settled"
I thought that by adding the ; [=DATE] in methods 2 and 3 I was recording
the day the paypal account was settled, am I wrong?
"Note that the Currency Exchange transaction is wrong because it
For my 2 cents, I prefer method 1 since it correctly records the day the
paypal account is settled. Note that the Currency Exchange transaction is
wrong because it suggests that Paypal provided the AED for you to settle
the Paypal account. It is more likely that you got the AED from your bank
I don't have time to think through your samples right now and I hope
someone else will respond.
However, I wanted to mention Peter Selinger's tutorial on multiple
currency accounting:
https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html
Reading/applying this has been on my TODO list
Allow me to add some more complexity.
To test these samples when a sequence of transaction occurs, wherein the
exchange rate might actually change over time, I've created a sample with 3
purchases in 3 different currencies (BRL, USD, and GBP). Default paypal
account is EUR (all payments are
Dear all,
I have been playing around with commodities because I frequently spend
money in different currencies and I then settle it with an internal
currency exchange within my own accounts.
I would like to understand if the following 2 samples are exactly
equivalent or, otherwise, what
