reconcilation via balance assertion

[Saša Janiška]

Hello,

when I was using Gnucash, then reconcillation was easy and for few
account I was doing it monthly by assestion the end of month’s balance.

Now, with Beancount I’m not sure how to it - I’ve tried with balance
assertion like:


2016-09-30 ! "NLB" "interest"
Assets:Bank:NLB 0.01 EUR
Income:Interest-EU -0.01 EUR

2016-09-30 ! "NLB" "banking fee"
Expenses:Bank:NLB:Fees 1.80 EUR
Assets:Bank:NLB -1.80 EUR


2016-09-30 balance Assets:Bank:NLB 701.25 EUR

but it fails with:

Balance failed for 'Assets:Bank:NLB': expected 701.25 EUR != accumulated
703.05 EUR (1.80 too much)

2016-09-30 balance Assets:Bank:NLB 701.25 EUR

I know that one of the differences between Ledger and Beancount is that
Ledger does parsing chronologically and then since the assertion
statement comes *after* transactions (which are, btw., usual for the end
of the month when the bank gives some interest and/or takes its fee the
checking accounts) it works in Ledger, but wonder how to solve it in
Beancount?

Of course, if I change the date of balance assestion to e.g. 2016-10-01
then it fits, but the problem is that I’d like to have balance
assesrtion at the end of the month since, beginning of new month might
already bring new transcations into the play?


Sincerely,
Gour


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[yegle]

There was a discussion about ading closing_balance directive but I'm not sure if it's going to be implemented.

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[Saša Janiška]

yegle <cny...@gmail.com> writes:

> There was a discussion about ading closing_balance directive but I'm
> not sure if it's going to be implemented.

Thanks.

Otoh, I re-read the docs and found out that “Beancount’s balance
assertions are separate directives that are applied at the beginning of
the date for which they are declared”, so in my case it’s proper to use

2016-10-01 to assert balance for the end of September, right?


Sincerely,
Gour

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[yegle]

Right, that's what I use.

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[Martin Blais]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Saša Janiška <go...@atmarama.com> wrote:

yegle <cny...@gmail.com> writes:

> There was a discussion about ading closing_balance directive but I'm
> not sure if it's going to be implemented.

Thanks.

Otoh, I re-read the docs and found out that “Beancount’s balance
assertions are separate directives that are applied at the beginning of
the date for which they are declared”, so in my case it’s proper to use

2016-10-01 to assert balance for the end of September, right?

Yes.

(Half-open intervals everywhere makes for a more consistent system.)

Sincerely,
Gour

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