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plaintextaccounting
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Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
I use ledger: https://ledger-cli.org/
I believe this same plain text format is used by other tools, which you can find info about here: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ (In particular a lot of people seem to use hledger and beancount)
The ledger is written using a text editor. The purpose of the software is to add everything up, calculate the balances and make sure everything balances. I keep all of my 12 years of accounting in one file and haven't noticed any slowdown. But a real business would surely have many more accounts and may want to split files by financial year or something.
I use helper scripts to convert the data from my bank CSV downloads into ledger format. It uses machine learning to associate payees to accounts (e.g. "Tesco" gets filed to the account "Expenses:Groceries"). I haven't maintained the ML part although it works for me most of the time. In case it's useful, the code is here: https://github.com/georgek/accounts/
- Pandoc
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Ask HN: How Do You Budget?
I invite you to hang out in the https://plaintextaccounting.org/#news-discussion -> chats, we like to discuss tactics.
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Trakk: expense trakking app
My attempt at solving the same problem https://paisa.fyi. It builds on top of https://plaintextaccounting.org/ principles and is available as a CLI/Desktop App.
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Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma
ledger, hledger, beancount: https://plaintextaccounting.org/
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Firefly III
The plain text accounting options are by far the best if you're willing to give up automatic pretty navigation and graphing.
- Why plain text accounting over tools like excel or other accounting software, apart from version control?
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Accounting for Computer Scientists – Martin Kleppmann's Blog
Same: see also https://plaintextaccounting.org/
...the gist is "ledger.exe" (crufty-old-C-program) is the "perl" of plain-text-accounting. The implementation _is_ the specification.
"HLedger" (haskell) is the mostly-compatible ("now you have 15 standards!") which cleans up a bit of the crufty accidents and is considered more "pure" and "correct".
Mess with it for funsies, and consider using `hledger-ui` for browsing. It's really really powerful!
Specifically this part is super cool: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Commodities-and-Curr...
...and: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Currency-and-Commodi...
Implied exchange rates, arbitrary commodities/inventory. It gets into really heady territory pretty quick.
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Ask HN: Plaintext-oriented and SQLite based family office accounting solutions?
Does anyone know of in the spirit of something like plain text accounting (https://plaintextaccounting.org/) but adapted to integrate the complexities of a wealthy family? I intend to implement something myself, but was interesting if there was anything else out there.
The point would be to design something that substitutes for Addepar but with a sensibly organized sqlite db and csvs as "first class" sources of truth (and scripts to handle a variety of common functionality).
So it is really an exercise in understanding the correct architecture of various hierarchies, relationships, and categories in the context of a wealthy family.
All the major software out there just does not seem very good, have a principled handle on the fundamental and primitive relationships and operations that describe a family's financial affairs (everything done on an ad hoc basis). And because of this, entail complete data/platform lock-in.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your personal finances?
I use Beancount; learned at https://plaintextaccounting.org/.
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Please tell me the fastest way to analyze the expenses from bank statemẹnts and catẹgorise them accordingly
I use ledger (https://plaintextaccounting.org/) to manage my transactions in plain text and then generate reports. I copy/paste the transactions from pdfs received monthly in an Emacs Org file and then convert them to ledger format using ob-lc (https://github.com/jayrajput/ob-ledger-convert). There is a steep learning curve, but the results are awesome.
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- Ledger
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Ledger's NPM account has been hacked
I thought this was about https://github.com/ledger/ledger and was so confused why they'd be on NPM.
Pretty shitty of them to pick the name LedgerHQ after Ledger has already been used for years.
- Pta – the plain text accounting program
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An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
as far as the ledger-cli google groups [1] go, they seem to think it is a proper journal file. It has been fairly tested with OFX imports (https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/OFX-Import) as well bank autosync (https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync).
In fact, someone also wrote a book on this - https://leanpub.com/personal-accounting-in-ledger/
I will defer if you are indeed building your own competing tool in this space which is better, but holding to the original point of my request - maybe it will be incremental to support your format if ledger-cli format is supported today. versus not supporting any disk format (or inventing a new one).
[1] https://groups.google.com/g/ledger-cli/search?q=double%20ent...
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ANTLR v4 grammar to create own ledger/hledger parser
The best I found is a file from 13 years ago here https://github.com/ledger/ledger/blob/master/doc/grammar.y
- How to read code on github?
- ledger 3.3.2 released
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Ledger FAQs to Clarify
You're looking for /r/ledgerwallet. This subreddit is about accounting, e.g. ledger for the command line.
- Ask HN: Personal Finance Management
- ledger 3.3.1 released
What are some alternatives?
actual - A local-first personal finance app
hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
hledger-mode - An Emacs major mode for Hledger
GnuCash - GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
emanote - Emanate a structured view of your plain-text notes
beancount - Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.
ynab-to-ledger - A tool to convert a YNAB-exported CSV file to a plaintext accounting ledger dat file
ledger-obsidian - Plain text accounting in Obsidian.md
reckon - Flexibly import bank account CSV files into Ledger for command-line accounting
orgmode - Orgmode clone written in Lua for Neovim 0.9+.
foam - A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode