Support question for the #hledger #plaintextaccounting community:

Prefacing this by acknowledging that I know I'm probably trying to do something weird, but I’m just getting started so please be patient.

I’m trying to import a large CSV file and am running into unbalance transaction errors. For example:
> hledger: Error: /Users/cris/checking.csv:1751-1750:
> 1751 | 2025-03-21 Starting Balance
> | SBA $-100
>
> This transaction is unbalanced.
> The real postings' sum should be 0 but is: $-100

The line from the CSV file is:
> SBA,,03/21/2025,Starting Balance,,,,,$100,$0.00,Cleared

And the relevant rule from my import rules:
> fields account1, , date, description, , , account2, comment, amount-out, amount-in,

I can manually add the above transaction without issues, so I guess I need some clarity as to what I'm doing wrong with my import file.

Thanks!

Question for my dearest #accounting and double-entry #bookkeeping nerds:

I want to explicitly track some of my money for periodic subscriptions, e.g. paying for RuneScape membership every six months:

> Expenses:RuneScape EUR 47.99
> Assets:Bank:Liquid EUR -47.99

My idea is to move a sixth of that amount to a savings account every month like this:

> Assets:Bank:Saved:RuneScape EUR 8
> Assets:Bank:Liquid EUR -8

This is fine, but it doesn't track the liability that I have with Jagex to pay the subscription every six months. In my mental model, I should be able to track the cost of the future subscription payment as a liability because it affects my working capital, so I should record the liability with something like this:

> Liabilities:RuneScape EUR -47.99
> ???:??? EUR 47.99

However, I don't know which kind of account I should debit the liability to! Where should this money come from? Debiting equity doesn't feel right and my subscription is not an asset either. My idea is that when I finally pay the subscription, I'll credit the liabilities account with my saved cash:

> Liabilities:RuneScape EUR -47.99
> Assets:Bank:Saved:RuneScape EUR -47.99

But then I'll have to record the liability again for the next period.

I feel like my mental model for this is wrong. Any #help on how I can make this work? Thank you 

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Thanks to your requests, a number of problems in the #hledger lsp server have been solved. The new version is much better. Thank you!

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