On 16/09/2020 18:27, redst...@gmail.com wrote: > > B) Hide the conversion by booking it into a holding account: > > 2020-01-01 * "Furniture" > > Liabilities:CreditCard -30 EUR > > Liabilities:Hold -35 USD @ 0.75 EUR > > Liabilities:Hold 30 EUR > > Expenses:Table 25 USD > > Expenses:Chair 15 USD > > Your example does not balance, but even after fixing the math, I am not > sure it would owrk as intended: a transaction like > > 2020-09-16 * "Test" > Liabilities:Hold -20 USD @ 0.75 EUR > Liabilities:Hold 15 EUR > > balances, but is not zero sum. > > > What do you mean by "not zero sum"? How does this affect you?
This transactions balances to: Assets Equity Expenses Income Liabilities:Hold 15.00 EUR Liabilities:Hold -20.00 USD because a cost and not a price is (correctly) used to convert from USD to EUR. This makes it very difficult to define an invariant on the Liabilities:Hold account and thus check that no mistakes have been made in the booking. Cheers, Dan -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f2cbf080-4e73-347b-d2ac-0e7444825cda%40grinta.net.
