No, I see the transaction (did enable pad/balance transactions in the selection), it just doesn't update the balance. Here's the bug report with screenshot. https://github.com/beancount/fava/issues/527
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Jason Chu <xen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFFHUguE8L%3DADzC_DoSifY6S5wYR%3DAByZKsJP9b%3DjLMqBcq5Qg%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/CAGQ70etnoYL1f70eNR1fkCBWHANP8O%3DdibUp4bgScisE4jaH%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
