Hi Patrick,
thank you very much! This helps already and I will see, how I can use it in
a best way.
Best Regards
Fabian
On Friday, March 21, 2025 at 5:24:44 PM UTC+1 Patrick Ruckstuhl wrote:
> Hi Fab,
>
>
> welcome to your journey with beancount :)
>
>
> First for your journey questions. I think if you need/want the days,
> having it as a special currency instead of just metadata might be useful.
>
> This allows you to do calculations/aggregations on them, which I think you
> can't do with the metadata. I use here a separate expense account for the
> "NIGHTS", because I don't like to mix "Currencies", but you could keep it
> in the same one as you keep the monetary expenses.
>
> I'm modeling the other side of the nights as Equity, personally that feels
> cleaner than putting in Assets/Liabilities.
>
> I'm guessing this is just for your own interest, not for reimbursing,
> otherwise I would model it differently.
>
>
> ```
> option "operating_currency" "EUR"
>
> 2025-01-01 open Expenses:Travel:Accommodation:Hotel EUR
> 2025-01-01 open Assets:Bank:Checking EUR
> 2025-01-01 open Expenses:Travel:Nights NIGHTS
> 2025-01-01 open Equity:Nights NIGHTS
>
>
>
> 2025-03-11 * "Hotel in Berlin (3 nights)"
> date: "2025-03-08" ; Booking date
>
> purpose: "Conference"
> Expenses:Travel:Accommodation:Hotel 300.00 EUR
>
> Expenses:Travel:Nights 3 NIGHTS
>
>
> Assets:Bank:Checking -300.00 EUR
>
> Equity:Nights -3 NIGHTS
>
>
>
> 2025-03-08 * "Hotel in Berlin (3 nights)"
> firstNightDate: "2025-03-11" ; date of 1st night
>
> purpose: "Conference"
> Expenses:Travel:Accommodation:Hotel 300.00 EUR
>
> Expenses:Travel:Nights 3 NIGHTS
>
>
> Assets:Bank:Checking -300.00 EUR
>
> Equity:Nights -3 NIGHTS
> ```
>
> Without even doing any special queries, you'll already get a lot of
> information (e.g. in Fava)
>
>
> and you can query that information like
>
>
> ```
> SELECT sum(filter_currency(position, 'EUR')) as Cost,
> sum(filter_currency(position, 'NIGHTS')) as Nights, entry_meta('purpose')
> as Purpose
> WHERE account ~ '^Expenses:Travel' GROUP BY entry_meta('purpose')
> ```
>
>
> As for dealing with investments from IBKR, I'm doing this as well.
>
> My use case is pretty simple and boring, mostly buy and hold. For this I
> have built two things which are useful for me
>
> An importer which pulls, buys and dividends directly from IBKR
>
>
> https://tariochbctools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/importers.html#interactivebrokers
>
> A price import which pulls the price information for securities from IBKR
>
> https://tariochbctools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/price_fetchers.html
>
>
> For general documentation about investments, this part of the official
> beancount doc is a very good starting point
>
> https://beancount.github.io/docs/trading_with_beancount.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On 20.03.2025 19:33, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am quite new to beancount (and in accounting in general) and are testing
> a few
> minor things at the moment with version 3.
>
> At the moment I am planing to use it for two topics. One is for travelling
> and
> another one is for calculating tax relevant gains from
> investing (with interarctive brokers), which needs to be converted to EUR
> currency gain. For my understanding that is possible with beancount, but I
> missed up
> to now a good example case for it. Maybe someone can point me to one? This
> would
> be great!
>
> As mentioned, in addition to these investing tasks, I would like to track
> my business trips and also count days abroad or days in a hotel.
>
> For my understanding I am having different options to track this.
> I saws this: https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/NGt2BRHR6LE
> and understand, that I can use tags, meta or links for additional
> information.
> It seems that meta is a good option.
> Maybe I could even use a special NIGHT-currency also for tracking it.
>
> But I am not sure yet, what the best way is to get e.g. the number of
> nights
> which I stayed in a hotel in a certain time frame and what I paid for this.
>
> E.g. I could state a stay of 3 night in these two ways:
> ```
> 2025-03-11 * "Hotel in Berlin (3 nights)"
> date: "2025-03-08" ; Booking date
> nights: 3 ; Number of nights
> purpose: "Conference"
> Expenses:Travel:Accommodation:Hotel 300.00 EUR
> Assets:Bank:Checking -300.00 EUR
>
> 2025-03-08 * "Hotel in Berlin (3 nights)"
> firstNightDate: "2025-03-11" ; date of 1st night
> nights: 3 ; Number of nights
> purpose: "Conference"
> Expenses:Travel:Accommodation:Hotel 300.00 EUR
> Assets:Bank:Checking -300.00 EUR
> ```
>
> With this query:
>
> ```
> bean-query uow_test3.beancount "
> SELECT SUM(position), entry.meta['nights'] as nights
> WHERE account ~ '^Expenses:Travel'
> GROUP BY nights
> "
> ```
>
>
> I get something like this:
>
> ```
> SUM(positi n
> ---------- -
> 600.00 EUR 3
> ```
>
> I.e. I am summing the cost for all stays with 3 nights, but the number of
> nights.
>
> Do you have an advice how I can adjust my query for this?
> Thank you in advance!
> Best Regards
> Fab
>
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