Hi folks, Just wanted to run this through the group to make sure I'm doing things the right way.
I have been using Beancount for a couple of years. I started with a single ledger but then moved to two: one to track my own income and expenses, the other for shared expenses with my partner (bills and groceries). For the shared expenses every month I transfer some money from my personal bank account to our joint account. In my personal ledger that goes to "Expenses:Shared:Partner", and in the shared ledger that comes from "Income:Jorge" (and Income:Partner for her transfers). That has worked very well but now there is a slight complication as we are going to buy a flat and while we will still pay the bills 50% / 50%, I'll be paying a slightly higher share of the flat. The first hurdle is that now the "Income:Jorge" and "Income:Partner" accounts in the shared ledger are not balanced 50% / 50%. I was thinking about using separate "Income" accounts for contributions to the flat or perhaps using tags to exclude tagged transactions in the fava dashboards but I can't find the way to do it. Moreover, I guess that I'd also need subaccounts on the "Expenses" and "Liabilities" accounts (for interests and mortgage)? The other thing that doesn't look entirely right is that as soon as we transfer the money for the deposit into the joint account the scaling of the Fava charts went much higher so our normal income and expenses are now almost invisible. Which makes me think... Perhaps I'm doing this wrong and should track the flat on a separate third ledger? I'm hoping this is a rather common scenario and most folks have cracked this. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Kind regards, Jorge -- 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/CAF%2BwLirib2XoWG4T6VWoAhuWjWOwPTJQgBR6v6ZO7SLXNQUgtg%40mail.gmail.com.
