account Assets:Cash
account Expenses:Phone
account Expenses:Rent
account Expenses:Food
commodity EUR
commodity GBP
payee Phone
    alias MobilePhone
payee Several
tag food
tag Payee

2012-03-20 Phone
    Expenses:Phone            20.00 GBP
    Assets:Cash

2012-03-21 Rent
    Expenses:Rent            550.00 GBP
    Assets:Cash

2012-03-22 Food
    ; :food:
    Expenses:Food             20.00 EUR
    Assets:Cash

2012-03-23 Several
    Expenses:Food              10.00 EUR ; Payee: Food
    Expenses:Phone             10.00 EUR ; Payee: MobilePhone
    Assets:Cash

$ hledger -f- check

#test bal --strict --check-payees
#          -40.00 EUR
#         -570.00 GBP  Assets:Cash
#           40.00 EUR
#          570.00 GBP  Expenses
#           30.00 EUR    Food
#           10.00 EUR
#           20.00 GBP    Phone
#          550.00 GBP    Rent
#--------------------
#                   0
#__ERROR__
#Warning: "$FILE", line 17: Unknown payee 'Rent'
#Warning: "$FILE", line 21: Unknown payee 'Food'
#Warning: "$FILE", line 27: Unknown payee 'Food'
#end test
#