help structure my savings/allowance accounts

2019-07-01 Thread Stephan Brosinski
Hi, I'm not sure how to structure my accounts for the following set of transactions. Any help would be welcome. I changes some account names to simplify explaining the issue. I have 2 asset accounts - asset:checking and asset:savings. At the beginning of the month I transfer money from checking

Re: help structure my savings/allowance accounts

2019-07-01 Thread Jason Chu
This has probably been written better, but I don't think you want to use an Allowance account like that, unless you don't care about the types of things you buy with your allowance. For example, I care if I spend my allowance (in my case I call it discretionary money) on eating out, buying random t

Re: help structure my savings/allowance accounts

2019-07-01 Thread Stephan Brosinski
I tried something similar as > 2019-06-18 "Sombody" "Shiny Toy" > Assets:Checking -20.00 USD > Expenses:Technology 20.00 USD > Assets:Virtual:Allowance -20.00 ALUSD > Expenses:Virtual:Allowance 20.00 ALUSD but with both currencies USD. So I was actually tracking the expense twice, which

Retaining cost bases through conversions

2019-07-01 Thread Red S
Existing mutual fund shares occasionally get converted to a different class of shares. The resulting class typically has a different NAV, so the transaction ends up looking like: 2011-01-01 * "Mutual fund exchange: upgrade share class" Assets:Investments:Taxable:Vanguard-Pre-75305462 -35.010

Re: Retaining cost bases through conversions

2019-07-01 Thread Martin Blais
Use cost syntax on both legs: {...} not @@ On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:35 AM Red S wrote: > Existing mutual fund shares occasionally get converted to a different > class of shares. The resulting class typically has a different NAV, so the > transaction ends up looking like: > > 2011-01-01 * "Mutua