Invalid reference to unknown account 'Expenses:...'

[nathanl...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to set up beancount (it takes a bit of work), but I'm running into a strange error and was wondering if you could tell me what I'm doing wrong:

$ cat data/simple.beancount
* Banking
2018-01-01 open Assets:UK:Barclays              GBP
2019-01-01 open Equity:Opening-Balances


2019-04-10 * "Open Barclays" ""
  Assets:UK:Barclays           3705.81 GBP
  Equity:Opening-Balances     -3705.81 GBP
2019-05-10 * "TFL TRAVEL CHARGE TFL.GOV.UK/CP" ""
  Assets:UK:Barclays                                  -4.80 GBP
  Expenses:Travel:PublicTransportation                 4.80 GBP
$ bean-report-3.7 data/simple.beancount balsheet > /dev/null

Is there some trick I'm missing? I thought "Expenses:..." didn't require any account opening?

Nathan

[Florian Lindner]

Am 03.07.19 um 10:09 schrieb nathanl...@gmail.com:

> I'm trying to set up beancount (it takes a bit of work), but I'm running into a strange error and was wondering if you could tell me what I'm doing wrong:
>
> |
> $ cat data/simple.beancount
> *Banking
> 2018-01-01open Assets:UK:Barclays             GBP
> 2019-01-01open Equity:Opening-Balances
>
>
> 2019-04-10*"OpenBarclays"""
>   Assets:UK:Barclays          3705.81GBP
>   Equity:Opening-Balances    -3705.81GBP

> 2019-05-10*"TFL TRAVEL CHARGE TFL.GOV.UK/CP"""

>   Assets:UK:Barclays                                 -4.80GBP
>   Expenses:Travel:PublicTransportation                4.80GBP

> $ bean-report-3.7data/simple.beancount balsheet >/dev/null

>
> |
>
> Is there some trick I'm missing? I thought "Expenses:..." didn't require any account opening?

That is not the case. You also need an open statement for all Expenses accounts. Not sure if the root account "Expenses" needs an open statement, but I don't think it's wise to book directly to it.

Best,
Florian

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[Nathan Clement]

That's what I supposed as well, but in the example beancount file, the first reference to "Expenses:..." is inline (line 85):

2013-01-04 * "BANK FEES" "Monthly bank fee"
  Assets:US:BofA:Checking                           -4.00 USD
  Expenses:Financial:Fees                            4.00 USD

What's the difference between mine and theirs?

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[Martin Blais]

Not sure what you mean by "inline" but there are open directives here:

https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/f0363bef42d27b3446b59d8790c094ff4952fdbc/examples/example.beancount#lines-6218

Keep in mind that ordering of directives in the file is not relevant, only the dates.

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[Nathan Clement]

That's exactly what I was missing. Slightly confusing that they're not in order.

Thanks!

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[Martin Michlmayr]

* Florian Lindner <mailin...@xgm.de> [2019-07-03 11:21]:

> Not sure if the root account "Expenses" needs an open statement, but
> I don't think it's wise to book directly to it.

"Expenses" alone is not a valid account name in beancount. It needs a
subaccount.

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