I have two Assets (Checking, Savings) with the usual disparity between their
interest earned. I also have a large set of things I'm saving up for. I've
had success with doing stuff like
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[Assets:Checking]
[Savings:Toys] 40
To virtually transfer into these fake savings ac
> mcbeth writes:
> The best I've come up with so far is to transfer the money from Savings:Toys
> back into checking, then from Checking to Assets:Saving and from
> Assets:Saving to Savings:Toys again... Seems cumbersome. What am I
> missing?
Can you explain in more detail the functionali
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:24:25PM -0600, John Wiegley wrote:
> > mcbeth writes:
>
> > The best I've come up with so far is to transfer the money from Savings:Toys
> > back into checking, then from Checking to Assets:Saving and from
> > Assets:Saving to Savings:Toys again... Seems cumbersom
On 03/03/2013 04:47 PM, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
Maybe none. What I'm hoping for is if I call ledger with --real, I would get
the correct amounts in my real accounts. If I call ledger without it, I want
the money that is in my savings to not be in either real account. What I have
done ri
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:47:47PM -0500, Sam Stuck wrote:
> In the second transaction, you pull a *different* 100 to be
> transferred. You move 100 into Savings:Toys, then move another 100
> into Assets:Checking. The amount must be in either Savings:Toys or
> Assets:Savings, but cannot be in both.
Err, the second equity should read -200. That'll teach me to try to imitate
Ledger's output by hand :)
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 07:08:56PM -0500, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:47:47PM -0500, Sam Stuck wrote:
> > In the second transaction, you pull a *different* 100 to
The best I've been able to come up with is to transfer the amount from the
virtual account *back* into the real account, then do the transfer between
the two real accounts, then do one more transfer from the new real account
back into the virtual account.
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[Assets:Checking]
