Re: Several questions about usage from a newb

2016-10-14 Thread budric
When trying to use the book_algorithm option, I get an error: Invalid option: 'booking_algorithm' . I installed beancount from repository (hg id shows 5e2dcbfc81b1) using pip install. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. The head of beancount file verbatim is: ;; -*- mode: org; mode: beancount; co

Re: Several questions about usage from a newb

2016-10-14 Thread Budric Bundy
The return of capital was incorrect, I made some mistakes in both the math, and saying ACB should increase - it decreases. I think this is how it should look like: I think it should look like this 2015-01-02 * "Return of capital (1 cent per share)" Assets:Broker:ABC -100 ABC {1

Re: Several questions about usage from a newb

2016-10-14 Thread Martin Blais
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:43 PM, wrote: > When trying to use the book_algorithm option, I get an error: Invalid > option: 'booking_algorithm' . > I installed beancount from repository (hg id shows 5e2dcbfc81b1) using pip > install. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. > > The head of beancount file v

Re: "A valid price for … could not be found"

2016-10-14 Thread Martin Blais
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Harris wrote: > In the Language manual, you say a Price directive is synthesized when a > posting has a cost or price. But I get the "A valid price for HOUSE/USD > could not be found" warning with > > 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase" > Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {

Re: "A valid price for … could not be found"

2016-10-14 Thread Matthew Harris
Aha. With "bean-query print" I was able to determine that I needed to put the implicit_prices plugin before the unrealized plugin. Now I'm warning-free. Thank you! On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 6:40:50 PM UTC-7, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Harris > wrote: >

Re: "A valid price for … could not be found"

2016-10-14 Thread Martin Blais
Yes. (See Note: from 3rd message in thread :-)) On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Matthew Harris wrote: > Aha. With "bean-query print" I was able to determine that I needed to put > the implicit_prices plugin before the unrealized plugin. Now I'm > warning-free. Thank you! > > On Friday, October

Re: "A valid price for … could not be found"

2016-10-14 Thread Matthew Harris
In the Language manual, you say a Price directive is synthesized when a posting has a cost or price. But I get the "A valid price for HOUSE/USD could not be found" warning with 2005-05-24 * "Home Purchase" Assets:Home 1 HOUSE {10.00 USD} Liabilities:Mortgage -10.00 USD and 2005-

Several questions about usage from a newb

2016-10-14 Thread budric
Hi, Thank you for writing beancount as well as exellent documentation in terms of introduction to accounting and beancount as a software package. I have read several of them like Getting Started Guide, Trading with Beancount, Cookbook. I still have a few questions as I'm coming to grips with

Re: Several questions about usage from a newb

2016-10-14 Thread Martin Blais
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for writing beancount as well as exellent documentation in terms > of introduction to accounting and beancount as a software package. I have > read several of them like Getting Started Guide, Trading with Beancount, > Cookbook. I still