Ledger: Command-Line Accounting

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Overview

Ledger is a command-line accounting tool that provides double-entry accounting based on a text journal. It provides no bells or whistles, and returns the user to the days before user interfaces were even a twinkling in their fathers’ CRTs.

• Introduction to Ledger:  
• Ledger Tutorial:  
• Principles of Accounting with Ledger:  
• Keeping a Journal:  
• Transactions:  
• Building Reports:  
• Reporting Commands:  
• Command-Line Syntax:  
• Budgeting and Forecasting:  
• Time Keeping:  
• Value Expressions:  
• Format Strings:  
• Extending with Python:  
• Ledger for Developers:  
• Major Changes from version 2.6:  
• Example Journal File:  
• Miscellaneous Notes:  
• Concepts Index:  
• Commands & Options Index:  

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1 Introduction to Ledger

• Fat-free Accounting:  
• Building the program:  
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