Balance, Pad, and 'why should I use an equity account'?

2017-04-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Preamble: I'm a former Gnucash user, and my pre-2017 accounts were imported from there, now using beancount with fava as a complete replacement. Historically, I have an account called Expenses:UnaccountedExpenses which is the balancing account for things that go missing. I have two Cash accounts (

Re: Balance, Pad, and 'why should I use an equity account'?

2017-04-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Another thing to note is that there's likely a fava bug (going to report it now) where balance/pad transactions don't actually update the 'target' account. Bean-web seems to handle this fine. On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Preamble: I'm a former Gnucash user, and my pre-2017

Re: Balance, Pad, and 'why should I use an equity account'?

2017-04-13 Thread Jason Chu
The "bug" you're noticing is because you haven't clicked the Pad button to show padded transactions. They exist, because they're a fundamental concept in beancount, they're just not displayed by default. On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:18 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Another thing to note is that there's li

Re: Balance, Pad, and 'why should I use an equity account'?

2017-04-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
No, I see the transaction (did enable pad/balance transactions in the selection), it just doesn't update the balance. Here's the bug report with screenshot. https://github.com/beancount/fava/issues/527 On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Jason Chu wrote: > The "bug" you're noticing is because you h

Re: Balance, Pad, and 'why should I use an equity account'?

2017-04-13 Thread Martin Blais
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Preamble: I'm a former Gnucash user, and my pre-2017 accounts were > imported from there, now using beancount with fava as a complete > replacement. > > Historically, I have an account called Expenses:UnaccountedExpenses which > is the balancing