Subtracting subtree values

[Dillan Chang]

Hello devs, long time user here. Thanks for maintaining this amazing repo.

Just one small question cause I tried looking in the manual to no success. Is it possible for balance to report the value of an account minus the values from the children?

For example, I have something like this.

2023-08-08 Example
Assets:Checking  $100

[Assets:Checking]  $-100

[Assets:Checking:Virtual-A]  $30

[Assets:Checking:Virtual-B]  $70

Income  $-100

If you run bal Assets, you currently get:

$100.00   Assets:Checking
$30.00       Virtual-A
$70.00       Virtual-B

But I would like to get something like this:

$0.00   Assets:Checking
$30.00       Virtual-A
$70.00       Virtual-B

where if you run bal Assets -R, you'd end up with

$100.00   Assets:Checking

Thank you

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "DC" == Dillan Chang <dilla...@gmail.com> writes:

DC> If you run bal Assets, you currently get:
DC> $100.00   Assets:Checking
DC> $30.00       Virtual-A
DC> $70.00       Virtual-B

You’d need to run:

ledger bal -T amount '^Assets$'

In order to report amounts, not aggregate totals, and to confine your report
to exactly the Assets account alone.

John

[david kayal]

Why not use —collapse?

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[John Wiegley]

Won’t that option collapse the sub account balances into the parent?

John

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