On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 at 03:39 Michael Toomim <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need a FIFO algorithm to calculate capital gains. Since ledger doesn't > support this, > I'm not sure what you mean, have you seen this section of the manual? http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Commodity-prices Ledger doesn't explicitly do FIFO cost basis calculations, but if you maintain each "lot" of a commodity that you buy, you can specify that lot when selling and Ledger can calculate the gains automatically. (I *think* that ledger may assume a FIFO order when you sell a commodity, but I'm not positive.) > *2. Exporting all csv data to python* > So maybe I can just filter transactions from python. Unfortunately, the > csv export still exports postings, and I need to see them grouped by > transaction. > > For instance, these transactions: > > 2014-1-1 bought food > Expenses:food $4 > Assets:cash > > 2014-1-1 bought food > Expenses:food $4 > Assets:cash > > Are these examples of the assets that you'd like to calculate capital gains for, or just examples for the CSV export? -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
