Re: rollover budget

[Erik Hetzner]

At Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:22:57 -0800 (PST),
Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
>
> How would you create a rollover budget[1] in ledger?
>
> 1. http://www.ehow.com/info_7759825_rollover-budget.html

Hi Ryan,

Here’s what I’ve been using:

= expr (date>=[2013] and account =~ /^Expenses:/)
(Budgeted:$account) -1

2013-01-01 * Budget
(Budgeted:Expenses:Foo) $100
(Budgeted:Expenses:Bar) $100

2013-01-01 * Foo
Assets:Bank -$10
Expenses:Foo

You have to create the Budget entries by hand or use a script (I have
a little ruby script to do it). Maybe there is a better way (if so,
let me know!)

See here for another answer:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ledger-cli/izsp0-Fn5qs/NSH339EhB1sJ

best, Erik