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<h3 id="with-text">… with text</h3>
<p>Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other <strong><a href="#ledger-likes">Ledger-likes</a></strong> are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting. <!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. --> This site introduces them and their way of doing things.</p>
<!-- Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** -->
<!-- are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting. -->
<!-- <\!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. -\-> -->
<!-- This site introduces them and their way of doing things. -->
<p>In 2003, John Wiegley invented Ledger: a plain text data format and command-line reporting tool for efficient double-entry-style accounting. This idea went viral among software developers and technical folk, and we now have 5+ actively-developed <strong><a href="#ledger-likes">Ledger-likes</a></strong> such as hledger and Beancount, with 40+ add-on tools and an active community. This site was created in 2016 to introduce our tools, documentation, workflows and principles.</p>
<p>Accounting data is valuable; we want to know that it will be accessible for ever - even without software. We want to know when it changes, and revision-control it. We want to search and manipulate it efficiently. So, we store it as human-readable <strong><a href="http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#The-Most-Basic-Entry">plain</a> <a href="http://hledger.org/manual.html#journal">text</a></strong>.</p>
<p>We simplify debits and credits by using <strong><a href="http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Stating-where-money-goes">signed numbers</a></strong> instead - positive for inflows to an account, negative for outflows from an account.</p>
<p>We define arbitrary <strong><a href="http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Structuring-your-Accounts">account</a> <a href="http://hledger.org/manual.html#account-names">hierarchy</a></strong> to suit our needs. This scales smoothly from simple to complex scenarios, and from high-level overview to fine detail.</p>

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Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)**
are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting.
<!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. -->
This site introduces them and their way of doing things.
<!-- Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** -->
<!-- are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting. -->
<!-- <\!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. -\-> -->
<!-- This site introduces them and their way of doing things. -->
In 2003, John Wiegley invented Ledger: a plain text data format and command-line reporting tool for efficient double-entry-style accounting.
This idea went viral among software developers and technical folk, and we now have
5+ actively-developed **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** such as hledger and Beancount,
with 40+ add-on tools and an active community.
This site was created in 2016 to introduce our
tools, documentation, workflows and principles.
Accounting data is valuable;
we want to know that it will be accessible for ever - even without software.