* 'Alen Šiljak' via Beancount <[email protected]> [2025-05-04 05:49]:
> During the migration, I have identified a record that causes problems and I
> don't really understand why.
> 2013-02-25 txn "Buy BYE"
> Assets:Investments:Shares:BYE 10595 BYE @ 0.47 YEN
> Expenses:Commissions 19.95 YEN
> Assets:Investments:Cash -4999.60 YEN
Stefano already answered your question but just to expand a bit.
Ledger treats costs ({...}) and prices (@ ...) as very similar whereas
there's an explicit difference in beancount.
So if we take your transaction:
2013-02-25 * "Buy BYE"
Assets:Investments:Shares:BYE 10595 BYE @ 0.47 YEN
Expenses:Commissions 19.95 YEN
Assets:Investments:Cash -4999.60 YEN
If you look at the ledger balance report with --lots, you'll see that
ledger added a cost:
ledger -f a1 bal :bye --lots
10595 BYE {0.47 YEN} [2013-02-25] Assets:Investments:Shares:BYE
But this is not how it works in beancount. You need to specify a cost
explicitly if you want one -- in many cases (e.g. cash / currencies) I
won't want FOO @ BAR to create a cost (ledger "lot).
People are often not aware of this in ledger-land because ledger
allows you to remove a lot that doesn't exist (*); which beancount
wisely doesn't allow.
(*) You only see the mess if you look at it with "bal --ledger".
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