The "bug" you're noticing is because you haven't clicked the Pad button to show padded transactions. They exist, because they're a fundamental concept in beancount, they're just not displayed by default.
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:18 PM Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another thing to note is that there's likely a fava bug (going to report > it now) where balance/pad transactions don't actually update the 'target' > account. Bean-web seems to handle this fine. > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Preamble: I'm a former Gnucash user, and my pre-2017 accounts were >> imported from there, now using beancount with fava as a complete >> replacement. >> >> Historically, I have an account called Expenses:UnaccountedExpenses which >> is the balancing account for things that go missing. I have two Cash >> accounts (Assets:Cash:Me and Assets:Cash:Wife) and we use fava to input our >> cash transactions on the go. Of course, over the course of a week or two >> sometimes we'll miss a transaction, maybe forget to record cash paid for >> lunch, maybe we dropped some coins on the floor, whatever it is. The >> amounts are small, and so I just created this UnaccountedExpenses account >> to track those amounts. >> >> Additionally this account has been used to track unknown flows of money >> (I've had cheques and transfers appear in my bank account before which I >> have no record of. Perhaps payment for some service I've rendered but >> forgot about). >> >> This seems to be what Pad and Balance are made for, in beancount. However >> the documentation recommends (highly?) an equity account, which makes sense >> for the example given of opening balances etc. >> >> My question is - should my 'unaccounted transactions' be considered an >> equity transfer or an expense? My previous reason for listing this as an >> expense is that the cashflow tracked here is almost always actually a >> (forgotten) expense, and should thus show up as something I've spent. I'd >> like to hear some accounting reasoning on that (I understand equity to mean >> 'value', but I'm an engineer not an accountant). >> >> Thanks! >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAGQ70evbikZ1pi%3D7H4PhswQs1hAbr5PwBrw6BL%2Ba_-OiA09GLw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAGQ70evbikZ1pi%3D7H4PhswQs1hAbr5PwBrw6BL%2Ba_-OiA09GLw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFFHUguE8L%3DADzC_DoSifY6S5wYR%3DAByZKsJP9b%3DjLMqBcq5Qg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
