Hi all, just a quick question.

Has anyone found it useful to use Ledger to track deductions on their
income, like income tax, pension contributions, etc?  Or do most
people simply enter their net income?

I can see it being useful, but then the net income becomes less
apparent, and perhaps budgeting would get more complicated as a
result.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Has anyone found it useful to use Ledger to track deductions on their
income, like income tax, pension contributions, etc?  Or do most
people simply enter their net income?

I can see it being useful, but then the net income becomes less
apparent, and perhaps budgeting would get more complicated as a
result.

On Sep 14 2011, 2:54 pm, Martin Michlmayr <t...-R+vWnYXSFMfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> * Craig Earls <ender... <at> gmail.com> [2011-09-14 14:11]:

>
> > I have tried manually putting the comments in both places, and the
> > command "ledger -f ./file.dat --sort d print " puts out the included
> > text.  That seems strange.  I have a small mind and like
> > consistency.
>
> It is consistent.  ledger wraps the line after 80 characters and the
> latter two notes don't fit into the line, so they are placed on the
> next line.  You could pass -w to ledger to specify wide output.

Related question: is there a way to specify that ledger should not
reformat comments?  In other words:

1. if the comment is on the same line as the account, such as
  Expenses   $10  ; very long comment on this account that exceeds
the width

  then the comment should NOT be wrapped; and

2. if the comment is on the following line, such as
  Expenses   $10
  ; short comment

  then it should not be combined with the previous line.

Thanks!
- Hsiu-Khuern.

Hi,
I have recently upgraded to ledger 3.0 and found that highlight of
account names with spaces is broken. I took a look at git repo and
found that there's a change set fixing exactly the same problem in
2009 – https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/commit/8834fc0c15a53b8db8c2aaee95d2b25a050fe786

However the change set above adresses file ldg-mode.el, not ledger.el,
I guess something has been changed with packaging. Anyway I just
reapplied this patch to ledger.el locally and problem is fixed.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Matt Seburn <mattseburn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Has anyone found it useful to use Ledger to track deductions on their
income, like income tax, pension contributions, etc?  Or do most
people simply enter their net income?

I can see it being useful, but then the net income becomes less
apparent, and perhaps budgeting would get more complicated as a
result.

It doesn't obscure the net income much, IMHO, and I find it nice because I've gotten a W-2 (In case you aren't in the US, that's an end-of-year statement of how much income tax you paid) that was wildly incorrect, so I've needed this information. Your mileage may vary, but I think it's a good idea.

--Paul

Thanks so much for the update! I read through the whole thing and am
very impressed by all your work -- you've done an amazing job.

I really like the asset allocation example. If I had one comment, it's
that handling more basic stock transactions and reporting in ledger is
still a bit unclear. There is section 5.5.2, but it just shows basic
stock purchases and sales. What is the best way to account for
dividends? Is there an easy way to report the total return for a
security? (i.e. current price + dividends accumulated - (purchase
price + purchase commission)) Also, maybe related to this: an example
using --comm-as-payee might be helpful.

Hello,

i just got started on Ledger and i am trying to figure out to solve
this problem and i can't figure out anything from the docs. This is an
example from the docs

2011/09/15 * Deposit Acme Bytepumps Monthly Paycheck
Income:Taxable:Acme Bytepumps Inc. $-2500.00
Assets:Brokerage:Checking $175.00
Assets:Investments:401K Deferred $250.00
Expenses:Tax:Medicare $36.25
Expenses:Tax:Federal Tax $200.00
Expenses:Tax:State Tax $20.00
Expenses:Insurance:Life $18.75
Assets:Credit Union:Joint Checking

is there a way i could say automatically compute say Tithe of the last
line ie: 'Assets:Credit Union:Joint Checking'

thank, Nic

I'm using $ ledger --version
Ledger 3.0.0-20110325, the command-line accounting tool

Built from homebrew using --HEAD and I have a couple of questions
regarding the entry/xact command.

1) The ledger.1 man page lists a command called draft, but as far as I
can tell it doesn't exist. I can understand the man page being behind
the code, but is the man page ahead of the code or just wrong?

2) When using the entry command is there an easy way to specify that
the transaction occurred yesterday or the day before. I imagine
something like
$ledger entry t-1 Blah groceries '$3.41'
would give something like (today is 2012/01/26)
2012/01/25 Blah
   Expenses:Dining:Groceries                $3.41
   Liabilities:CC:Amex

and t-2 would give the same entry but with the date of 2012/01/24.

Thanks,
David

PS, how do I determine what the git sha version string this ledger was
built from is?