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About 2 years ago I spent quite a bit of time wrestling with Ledger. I really wanted to work out a command line based system for financial tracking. The one par
by LVB 14y ago
About 2 years ago I spent quite a bit of time wrestling with Ledger. I really wanted to work out a command line based system for financial tracking. The one part that totally tripped me up was trying to split up my accounts into individual files. I could never get Ledger to properly handle transfers between accounts, even after some lengthy discussions on the mailing list.
But this post has piqued my interest... Maybe worth another look.
- zdw 14y agoI had the same problem. My solution: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ledger-cli/K7EgJQuEQ_M/WGzdFhtuqwIJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ledger-cli/K7EgJQuEQ_M... Basically, make a 3rd account, name it transfer, and have it be the "staging area" that should always cancel out to zero. Works great for ledger files generated from an outside source.
- LVB 14y agoThat seems to be the only way to handle it. I did try something like that, but I think my approach was a little clunkier. I like the idea of a "Transfers" top level category that can go to zero...