Hello all, I'm using Beancount to track the books for a partnership.
At the end of the year I know that earnings are assigned to the `Earnings:Current` account (and any previous year's earnings are assigned to `Earnings:Previous` Part of closing the books involves dividing those earnings between the partners according to the formula defined in our bylaws. I had been doing this with a transaction similar to: ``` 2023-01-01 * "Partners" "2022 allocations" ^2022-book-closing Equity:Earnings:Previous 1000.00 USD Equity:Capital:PartnerA -600.00 USD Equity:Capital:PartnerB -400.00 USD ``` This makes time constrained views look correct (since beancount populates past profit into Earnings:Previous which offsets these transfers). However it results in odd reports when not viewing in a time frame (since beancount ONLY populates Earnings:Current, resulting in a positive `Earnings:Previous). Using `Equity:Earnings:Current` as the base account results in the same kind of issue but in reverse (non-time views look fine, but time constrained views appear off) What would you all recommend as the best entries to register these kinds of transactions / keep track of owner equity using Beancount? Best, - Dan -- Daniel Schultz (he / him) @slifty -- 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/c647ab45-0b52-483b-9d95-b66b42b9e69e%40Canary.
