On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:57 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking at Beancount to get a better grasp of my expenses. A vital part > of that are regular expenses, things like income, monthly rent, yearly > insurance fees, or semesterly university fees. I'm surprised to find no > documentation on how to manage such regular expenses with Beancount.
The author makes more money than he spends, so never cared much about budgeting. > I've searched the documentation, this group, and the web, but the closest > thing I've found is the forecast plugin which marks itself as experimental > and seems minimal. Look for "envelope budgeting" on the mailing-list, it's been discussed before several times. > Instead, I'm under the impression that I'm supposed not to project these > costs into the future, but to just keep track of the actual transactions that > have occurred in the past. Recording history and extracting various reports from it has been the focus. > However, this feels insufficient to me, since it seems important to know how > much money I will have left next month to spend on running costs. > > Therefore I would love some feedback on how you handle recurring expenses > with Beancount and whether it's the right tool for what I'm looking for? You'd have to design an envelope budgeting scheme and perhaps a plugin to auto-generate transactions in the future. It's likely not very difficult, all the underlying pieces are in place to do this. But if you don't code Beancount itself doesn't provide a great solution for this. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhM4CjOrg6pKrmc3nS9jLFVD9_X1Zx%2Beo5hj9s78az0S2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
