Hello, I am having a problem getting the balances for all accounts. Consider the following Journal file
2012-01-02 brown fox Assets:Checking 10 Liabilities:Saving -10
2012-01-03 jumps over Assets:Checking:Jumping 100 Liabilities:Saving:Sleeping -100
when I ask for the balance report, there is no entry for "Assets", only "Assets:Checking" and "Assets:Checking:Jumping". How can I get the balance report to also give me one line for "Assets", which is the sum total of all accounts below Assets?
In the given ledger Asset:Checking is the top level tracked.
'Jumping' is a subaccount of Assets:Checking. You need another sub
account of Assets before ledger will roll it up.
If you use this:
2012-01-02 brown fox
Assets:Checking 10
Liabilities:Saving -10
2012-01-03 jumps over
Assets:Jumping 100
Liabilities:Saving:Sleeping -100
> when I ask for the balance report, there is no entry for "Assets", only > "Assets:Checking" and "Assets:Checking:Jumping". How can I get the balance > report to also give me one line for "Assets", which is the sum total of all > accounts below Assets?
You only get Assets:Checking because Assets:Checking and Assets are
the same in your case. You'd get Assets as a separate line if you had
multiple sub-accounts within Assets.
You could also use --depth 1 to just get Assets but then you don't see
details for sub-accounts.
Thanks for the replies. It seems there's no way to have an "Assets" line in
the tree of accounts shown for the ledger file in my example? Not a problem
- I am working around the issue with some ruby code.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Siddharth Sharma <s...@svs.io> [2012-06-09 05:38]:
> > when I ask for the balance report, there is no entry for "Assets", only
> > "Assets:Checking" and "Assets:Checking:Jumping". How can I get the
> balance
> > report to also give me one line for "Assets", which is the sum total of
> all
> > accounts below Assets?
> You only get Assets:Checking because Assets:Checking and Assets are
> the same in your case. You'd get Assets as a separate line if you had
> multiple sub-accounts within Assets.
> You could also use --depth 1 to just get Assets but then you don't see
> details for sub-accounts.
No. You did not understand, in your example there is no tree, only a
straight line. Since you no doubt will have more than one sub account
under assets your problem will go away with a more realistic example
file.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Siddharth Sharma <s...@svs.io> wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. It seems there's no way to have an "Assets" line in
> the tree of accounts shown for the ledger file in my example? Not a problem
> - I am working around the issue with some ruby code.
> cheers
> Sid
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote:
>> * Siddharth Sharma <s...@svs.io> [2012-06-09 05:38]:
>> > when I ask for the balance report, there is no entry for "Assets", only
>> > "Assets:Checking" and "Assets:Checking:Jumping". How can I get the
>> > balance
>> > report to also give me one line for "Assets", which is the sum total of
>> > all
>> > accounts below Assets?
>> You only get Assets:Checking because Assets:Checking and Assets are
>> the same in your case. You'd get Assets as a separate line if you had
>> multiple sub-accounts within Assets.
>> You could also use --depth 1 to just get Assets but then you don't see
>> details for sub-accounts.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Craig Earls <ender...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No. You did not understand, in your example there is no tree, only a
> straight line. Since you no doubt will have more than one sub account
> under assets your problem will go away with a more realistic example
> file.
Ah, so we agree! There is no way to get a line for just Assets in my
example.
What if this is nested deep inside the tree? i.e. A:B:C:D:E and A:B:C:F.
Now there's no line for D and one can expect this to happen even in a more
realistic situation. In any case, I do not know beforehand what the
structure of the file is going to be, so I would love for ledger to print
all the "node" accounts separately so I can display them in a balance sheet
or something similar, no matter the structure. I am working around this
using a small wrapper script.
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Siddharth Sharma <s...@svs.io> wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies. It seems there's no way to have an "Assets" line
> in
> > the tree of accounts shown for the ledger file in my example? Not a
> problem
> > - I am working around the issue with some ruby code.
> > cheers
> > Sid
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com>
> wrote:
> >> * Siddharth Sharma <s...@svs.io> [2012-06-09 05:38]:
> >> > when I ask for the balance report, there is no entry for "Assets",
> only
> >> > "Assets:Checking" and "Assets:Checking:Jumping". How can I get the
> >> > balance
> >> > report to also give me one line for "Assets", which is the sum total
> of
> >> > all
> >> > accounts below Assets?
> >> You only get Assets:Checking because Assets:Checking and Assets are
> >> the same in your case. You'd get Assets as a separate line if you had
> >> multiple sub-accounts within Assets.
> >> You could also use --depth 1 to just get Assets but then you don't see
> >> details for sub-accounts.
