Hi Patrick,
This is indeed quite useful and does exactly what I need, thanks a lot.
For the sake of completeness, I assume that monthly contributions
towards the mortgage would look like this on the shared ledger:
Liabilities:LoanJorge-800
Liabilities:LoanPartner -200
Liabilities:LoanBank
Hi Jorge,
If the monthly contributions are interest (so not reducing the principal
of the loan), they are expenses, so I would model it like this
Income:Jorge -200
Income:Partner -100
Expenses:Interest 300
If they are paying back some of the principal, I would
Hello Patrick,
Thanks again!
Is there any reason why the payment for the interest expenses cannot
be done against the Liabilities (loan Jorge and Partner) instead of
the Income accounts? That way the liability accounts would track the
whole amount going into the flat (Asset + Mortgage Interest) w
Hi Jorge,
Yes having different income accounts makes sense if you are interested in
knowing the details. Interest needs to go vs income/expenses as it's an
outflow, you can't get it back when you sell the flat, so it shouldn't increase
your loan.
Regards,
Patrick
On November 28, 2021 12:14:24
I've tried this script and it is spitting out errors. Any pointers what is
going on?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/me/finances/beancount/reports/export.py", line 353, in
main()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1128,
in __call__