Viewing expenses in other currency

[man...@gmail.com]

Hi,

One last question about beancount, then I'll stay off the list for a while :).

I understand that I can create whatever commodities I want and then assign them a cost, for example:

2014-07-09 price VACHR  38.46 USD  ; Equiv. $80,000 year

But is there a way that I can invert this, and then view my expense list (or a tagged group of expenses) in another unit? Specifically, I'd like to create a commodity:

2014-07-09 price USD 1/307.68 WORKDAY ; 80k=307/day.

2014-07-09 price USD 0.025 VACHR ; if VACHR = ~40 USD, then USD = 1/40 VACHR

Then, I'd like to see how many days or weeks (in vacation days or USD) I spent in my Expense:Foo account or #some-vacation tag? I think the answer is "not yet", but it will exist when this ticket is closed: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/103/make-the-balance-sheet-and-income

I'm still not clear on all the features in beancount, so I'm asking here just in case this is implemented.

FYI, I read the long thread on the reason for the docs in google docs. Overall it seems like a net pro, but one issue not mentioned is that google doesn't seem to index google docs. When I google for "gnucash X" I get a clear page of text about feature X. That is not the case with beancount.

-k.

[Jason Chu]

You should be able to do this with Fava (conversion dropdown in the top right) or bean-query (using the CONVERT() function).  The stock bean-report/bean-web probably doesn't have anything like this.

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[Ken Mankoff]

On 2017-07-07 at 17:41, Jason Chu <xen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You should be able to do this with Fava (conversion dropdown in the top
> right) or bean-query (using the CONVERT() function).

Yes. Neat. The dropdown goes away if I hide the graph, and I have to have the currency as an operating_currency option, but now I can see my work effort in units of vacation days, or a coffee habit, etc.

Thanks,

-k.