I am confused, why don’t you just create two sub accounts under the same bank 
account for these two debt cards?

Like,

Assets:MyBank:MyAccount:peronal-123
Assets:MyBank:MyAccount:work-456

Regards,


> On Jan 2, 2019, at 18:28, Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> what is the most idiomatic way to express in Beancount that a certain 
> purchase has been done via a specific debit card?
> 
> I have a bank account with two debit cards: one for personal purchases and 
> one for work-related purchases. They are both billed to the same bank account 
> in a matter of seconds, so they are not really credit cards.
> 
> My current solution to track which card has been used is to create two 
> transactions with opposite amounts: one from the card (Liabilities) to the 
> payee (Expenses) and one from the card (Liabilities) to the account (Assets):
> 
>    2018-04-11 * "Train company" "Tickets to Place"
>      Liabilities:MyBank:WorkCard-123         -10.00 EUR
>      Expenses:Transports:Trains
> 
>    2018-04-11 *
>      Liabilities:MyBank:WorkCard-123          10.00 EUR
>      Assets:MyBank:MyAccount
> 
> Is there a better way to express this? Maybe combining these two transactions 
> into one?
> 
> Regards,
> 
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