Re: Tracking property and shared expenses.

2021-11-28 Thread Jorge Martínez López
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

Re: Tracking property and shared expenses.

2021-11-28 Thread 'Patrick Ruckstuhl' via Beancount
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

Re: Tracking property and shared expenses.

2021-11-28 Thread Jorge Martínez López
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

Re: Tracking property and shared expenses.

2021-11-28 Thread 'Patrick Ruckstuhl' via Beancount
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

Re: holdings

2021-11-28 Thread Jake Aust
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__