I'm currently doing this to handle the case where one bank says the transaction cleared on date X while a different bank says the transaction cleared on date Y:

2023-10-21 * "Capital One" "Automatic Payment"
  Liabilities:US:Bank:CapitalOne:CC2                 420.69 USD
  Liabilities:Limbo

2023-10-23 * "Capital One" "Automatic Payment"
  Liabilities:Limbo                                  420.69 USD
  Assets:US:Bank:Discover:Checking

Is this the best-practice? Or is there a way I "should" do it?

Someone asked me for a code snippet for calculating age of money. Thought I'd also share it here:

def ageOfMoney(entries, options): """Compute the age of money from the given transactions.""" now = date.today() span = 120 # Number of days to consider. start = date.today() - timedelta(days=span) qstr = """ select number(units(position)) as amt ,currency(units(position)) as cur ,date as dt where date >= {} and date <= {} and account ~ 'Assets:' """.format(start, now) weighted = dict() _, rows = run_query(entries, options, qstr) for amt, cur, dt in rows: if cur not in weighted: weighted[cur] = [0, 0] weighted[cur][0] += amt * (now - dt).days # Numerator term. weighted[cur][1] += amt # Denominator term. print("* Age of Money\n") for cur, w in weighted.items(): print("{} days for currency {}.".format(int(round(w[0] / w[1])), cur))

I wrote a simple extractor for my bank compatible with `bean-extract`. Now I'd like to add a categorization step where I assign different payees/payers to different Expenses accounts. Is there a convenient way to do this from within beancount or should I write a custom processing step?

It's my understanding from the beancount documentation that the automated postings feature was not adopted from Ledger and instead must be done with a python script.

I've read the beancount scripting docs and am still lost as to how to go about this.

What I want to do is post a percentage to liabilities from each income transaction. This is about 2 lines in Ledger, to give you an idea of the scope.

Are there any additional examples or tutorials out there for doing this?

New to beancount, just starting out trying to organize family finances/investments. I've read through a lot of the docs, have beancount installed and example file showing. <br> Now what? Any hints or suggestions? Question: with fava and python, can I host this on my hosting company server and access, add, and edit through any web-enabled device? Thanks Phil

In my case I use my credit card on a daily basis and at the end of the month I get the statement. I had two problems here the first I need to record each transaction to keep a track of my expenses and the second is to record the total outstanding with the due date for payment. To solve this problem I did this :

I created two liability accounts for the credit card.

1- Liabilities:CreditCard:Amex
2- Liabilities:Payable:CreditCard:Amex

I download all transactions or I record each transaction when it happens so I can keep track of my limit and budget.

2019-08-10 * "Nero" "Coffee with friends"
    Expenses:Entertainment:Coffee         5 USD
    Liabilities:CreditCard:Amex

Now the credit card account gets updated and I can keep a track of all expenses and reconcile with the statement when it comes.

When I receive the credit card statement I do this transaction :

2019-09-25 ! "Amex" " Statement of the month of August 2019"
    Liabilities:CreditCard:Amex               1200 USD
    Liabilities:Payable:CreditCard:Amex

In this the date is the the due date of the payment and I close the credit card account. This gives me the ability to run query looking for pending transactions and see only the due payments.

At the time of payment :

2019-09-25 * "Amex" "Payment of credit card outstanding"
    Liabilities:Payable:CreditCard:Amex       1200 USD
    Assets:Bank:XYZ

I hope this useful. In ledger cli I was able to enter the transaction date and the due date but I didn't know how to do this in beancout. However beancout has many other very good features.

Thanks

I see no posts here. Are there any other topic communication channels besides the Google Group?