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author | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2009-10-25 23:08:07 -0400 |
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committer | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2009-10-25 23:11:30 -0400 |
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Added beginning draft of manual for 3.0
This is being kept in Scrivener format, for ease of writing.
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diff --git a/doc/Ledger.scriv/195.rtfd/TXT.rtf b/doc/Ledger.scriv/195.rtfd/TXT.rtf new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66781398 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Ledger.scriv/195.rtfd/TXT.rtf @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf460 +{\fonttbl\f0\fmodern\fcharset0 Courier;} +{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;} +\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\tx6160\tx6720\sl264\slmult1\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural + +\f0\fs28 \cf0 Something that stops many people from keeping a ledger at all is the\ +insanity of tracking small cash expenses. They rarely generate a\ +receipt, and there are often a lot of small postings, rather than\ +a few large ones, as with checks.\ +\ +One solution is: don't bother. Move your spending to a debit card,\ +but in general ignore cash. Once you withdraw it from the ATM, mark\ +it as already spent to an @samp\{Expenses:Cash\} category:\ +\ +@smallexample\ +2004/03/15 ATM\ + Expenses:Cash $100.00\ + Assets:Checking\ +@end smallexample\ +\ +If at some point you make a large cash expense that you want to track,\ +just ``move'' the amount of the expense from @samp\{Expenses:Cash\} into\ +the target account:\ +\ +@smallexample\ +2004/03/20 Somebody\ + Expenses:Food $65.00\ + Expenses:Cash\ +@end smallexample\ +\ +This way, you can still track large cash expenses, while ignoring all\ +of the smaller ones.}
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