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

2017-04-14 Thread Daniel Clemente
> > My question is - should my 'unaccounted transactions' be considered > an equity transfer or an expense? My previous reason for listing > this as an expense is that the cashflow tracked here is almost > always actually a (forgotten) expense, and should thus show up as > something I've spent. I

Grouping Income accounts

2017-04-14 Thread mikv . regs
I started to use Beancount some time ago without reading entire documentation. Thus, I have Income accounts grouped by income type. E.g. Income:Interest:MyBank:Savings Income:Interest:AnotherBank:Savings But I have found that Beancount doc recommends grouping Income accounts by institution. Wh

Re: Grouping Income accounts

2017-04-14 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
First thing to note is that it's fairly trivial to convert account names (assuming you're handy with your editor, regex, sed, or any other string processing method). That being said, the main difference between Income:Type:Institution and Income:Institution:Type is what the main group is. Using '

Re: Grouping Income accounts

2017-04-14 Thread mikv . regs
Thanks for the prompt reply. On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 9:51:30 AM UTC+10, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > First thing to note is that it's fairly trivial to convert account names > (assuming you're handy with your editor, regex, sed, or any other string > processing method). > This brings another inte