Virtual postings and balance assertion

[Ryan Nowakowski]

I'm not sure how virtual postings and balance assertions are supposed to
work together. Here's my sample ledger file without virtual postings:

2018/2/25 Initial balance
Assets $100
Equity

2018/2/26 Buy something
Assets $-10
Expenses

2018/2/26 Balance assertion
Assets $0 = $90

Running: ledger -f test.dat bal
...works as expected:

$90 Assets
$-100 Equity
$10 Expenses
--------------------
0

Then the same ledger file with an additional virtual posting transaction:

2018/2/25 Initial balance
Assets $100
Equity

2018/2/26 Buy something
Assets $-10
Expenses

2018/2/26 virtual stuff
[Assets] $-10
[Expenses]

2018/2/26 Balance assertion
Assets $0 = $90


When I run: ledger -f test.dat bal

While parsing file "/tmp/test.dat", line 14:
While parsing posting:
Assets $0 = $90
^^^
Error: Balance assertion off by $10 (expected to see $80)

...which seems ok since the virtual posting should make the balance $80
instead of $90. However if I use --real I'd expect the balance
assertion to succeed: ledger -f test.dat bal --real

But it doesn't:


While parsing file "/tmp/test.dat", line 14:
While parsing posting:
Assets $0 = $90
^^^
Error: Balance assertion off by $10 (expected to see $80)

Is my expectation incorrect here? Is there any documentation on how
virtual postings and balance assertion are supposed to interact?

Thanks!

Ryan

[Jostein Berntsen]

This works in my ledger setup with version 3.1.1, both with an without
--real. Which version are you using?


Jostein

[Ryan Nowakowski]

I forgot to include that little unimportant bit of info :)

Ledger 3.1.2-20160801, the command-line accounting tool

[Dániel Fancsali]

Hey,

Just a hunch, but I feel it's a bit odd that the virtual account names match the real ones. I'd double check that, maybe using ledger register to see what the rolling sum is.

Regards,

Dan

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[Ryan Nowakowski]

This example from the documentation uses the same account name for both real and virtual postings:

https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Working-with-multiple-funds-and-accounts

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