[taviso]

I think that's a miss for Claude, this doesn't look right at all. The accrual account is an okay solution, but the syntax is wrong! That syntax is only used for budgeting and forecasting.

I think the solution is effective dates, there is an example pretty close to this scenario in the manual:

https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Effective-Dates

[simonmic]

I don't think it's terribly wrong. It will generate the desired entries (internally) and proper reports, if you add the appropriate option (--forecast=... for hledger, something else for Ledger). Or you could use it once to generate permanent journal entries, in your main journal or a forecast journal:

  hledger print --forecast='2024-11-01..+3 months' >>$LEDGER_FILE

Effective dates are another solution, but IMHO a misfeature, I mention this for newcomers: https://hledger.org/hledger.html#secondary-dates

[eterps]

Thank you for pointing this out, will check your link instead.