On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 2:01:53 PM UTC-4, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> * Aikido Guy <[email protected] <javascript:>> [2018-05-07 08:15]: 
> > I tried searching this group for "close an account" and did not find 
> > any related messages. I also tried reading the user manual for 
> > ledger 3.1.1 but could not find something appropriate... 
> > 
> > Is it possible to close an account"? 
>
> Beancount has a "close" statement to close accounts.
>

Thank you for letting me know; I'm not using Beancount at the moment 
though...
 

Ledger doesn't have such a statement.  However, you can define 
> accounts and list a number of checks, see 
> https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Command-Directives 
>
> The following does what you want: 
>
> account Expenses:Food 
>     note This account is all about the chicken! 
>     check date >= [2016-02-03] 
>     check date <= [2017-03-03] 
>

This is a very helpful example. I will try it! I wonder, could this example 
be put into the user manual if it's not already there? I think people would 
find it very helpful when skimming/searching the manual.

Kindly,
Aikido Guy

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