Plain Text Accounting
### concepts
accounting and double-entry bookkeeping
Ledger and the Ledger-likes
### characteristics
plain text data format
signed numbers instead of debit and credit
free-form account hierarchy
functional operation
command-line scriptable
### why ?
why we exist
who are we for
alternatives
### Ledger-likes
| | |
|---------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|-|
| [Ledger](http://ledger-cli.org) | the original. C++ | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/ledger) |
| [hledger](http://hledger.org) | Haskell | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/hledger) |
| [Beancount](http://furius.ca/beancount) | Python | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/beancount) |
| [Abandon](https://github.com/hrj/abandon) | Scala | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/abandon) |
| [Ledger in Go](https://github.com/howeyc/ledger) | Go | |
Inactive:
- [cl-ledger](https://github.com/ledger/cl-ledger) Common Lisp
- [ledger.pl](https://github.com/dimonf/ledger.pl) Perl
- [penny](https://github.com/massysett/penny) Haskell
- [UMM](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/UMM) Haskell
### related tools
- [fava](https://github.com/aumayr/beancount-web) web UI for browsing beancount data
- [hledger-api](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/hledger-api) JSON API for *ledger data, can also serve static files
- [hledger-diff](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-diff) report differing transactions between two journals
- [hledger-iadd](https://github.com/hpdeifel/hledger-iadd) curses UI for data entry
- [hledger-interest](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-interest) generate *ledger interest transactions
- [hledger-irr](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-irr) calculate an account's internal rate of return over time
- [hledger-ui](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-ui) curses UI for browsing
- [hledger-web](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-web) web UI for browsing and data entry
- [icsvledger](https://launchpad.net/csv2ledger) CSV to journal converter
- [ledger-autosync](https://gitlab.com/egh/ledger-autosync) convert OFX to journal, deduplication, bank download
- [ledger-dashboard](https://github.com/Ikke/ledger-dashboard) web UI for browsing
- [ledger-web](https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web) web UI for browsing
- [ledgerhelpers](https://github.com/Rudd-O/ledgerhelpers) GUI tools and python library front end for Ledger
- [reckon](https://github.com/cantino/reckon) smart interactive/non-interactive CSV to journal converter
- sandstorm.io web app hosting, eg for [hledger-web](https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8x12h6p0x0nrzk73hfq6zh2jxtgyzzcty7qsatkg7jfg2mzw5n90)
- [taskwarrior](http://taskwarrior.org) todo list manager, some *ledger integration for time reporting
- [tim](https://github.com/MatthiasKauer/tim) time tracking tool using hledger for reports
### docs
- [Ledger manuals](http://ledger-cli.org/docs.html)
- [Ledger wiki](https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki)
- [Getting Started With Ledger book](https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book)
- [hledger's more docs](http://hledger.org)
- [Beancount docs](http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/index)
### discussion
### common tasks
#### data entry
#### reconciling
#### reporting
#### forecasting
#### budgetting
#### shared expenses
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