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An experimental plan for easier maintenance. There will be one linear quickref-NAME.md file per ledger-like, with similar headings and content across all quickref files. A script will take the sections and tabulate them nicely to give a layout like the current page. And perhaps there'll be some javascript to show/hide each format.
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<title>Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends</title>
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<h1 id="beancount">Beancount</h1>
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<p><a href="http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/syntax" class="uri">http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/syntax</a><br />
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<a href="http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/cheatsheet" class="uri">http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/cheatsheet</a></p>
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<h2 id="basic-example">Basic example</h2>
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<pre><code>; a comment
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2016-01-01 open Assets:Checking
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2016-01-01 open Equity:Opening-Balances
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2016-01-01 open Expenses:Groceries
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2016-01-01 txn "set opening balance"
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Assets:Checking 500.00 USD
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Equity:Opening-Balances
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2016-01-05 txn "farmer's market"
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Expenses:Groceries 50 USD
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Assets:Checking</code></pre>
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<p>All referenced accounts must have an open directive.</p>
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<h2 id="comments">Comments</h2>
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<pre><code>; comment</code></pre>
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<p>Any unrecognised line is also a comment</p>
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<h2 id="basic-transactions">Basic transactions</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE txn [["PAYEE"] "DESCRIPTION"]
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ACCOUNT AMOUNT
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ACCOUNT [AMOUNT]</code></pre>
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<p>DESCRIPTION must be in double quotes, can be multiline. No need for two spaces between account and amount.</p>
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<h2 id="dates">Dates</h2>
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<pre><code>YYYY-MM-DD
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YYYY/MM/DD
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YYYY.MM.DD</code></pre>
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<p>Only YYYY-MM-DD with 8 digits is officially supported.</p>
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<h2 id="account-names">Account names</h2>
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<pre><code>TOPACCT[:SUBACCT[:...]]
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Income:Salary
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Liabilities:CreditCard:CITI-1234
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Assets:House</code></pre>
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<p>Top level account must be one of Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Income, Expenses. Each subaccount must be capitalised. Letters, digits and hyphen are allowed (no spaces).</p>
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<h2 id="amounts">Amounts</h2>
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<pre><code>QUANTITY COMMODITY
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10USD
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1000.0001 USD</code></pre>
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<p>COMMODITY is all capital letters, on the right, and required . Decimal point is . (period). Digit group separator , (comma) is allowed and ignored.</p>
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<h2 id="more-transaction-features">More transaction features</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE [txn|FLAG] [["PAYEE"] "DESCRIPTION"]
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[FLAG] ACCOUNT AMOUNT [PRICE]
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...
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[FLAG] ACCOUNT AMOUNT [PRICE]</code></pre>
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<p>The txn keyword may be replaced by a FLAG. For just a payee, use <code>"PAYEE" ""</code>.</p>
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<h2 id="prices">Prices</h2>
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<p><code>{LOTUNITPRICE[ / LOTDATE]}</code> and/or one of <code>@ UNITPRICE</code>, <code>@@ TOTALPRICE</code>.</p>
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<p>Lot prices are remembered and form distinct commodities, other prices are not. If there is both a lot price and a regular price, the latter records a market price.</p>
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<h2 id="balance-assertions">Balance assertions</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE balance ACCOUNT AMOUNT
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2014-08-09 balance Assets:Cash 562.00 USD
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2014-08-09 balance Assets:Cash 210.00 CAD</code></pre>
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<p>Asserts the balance in this commodity, in this account, including subaccounts, at the start of this day.</p>
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<h2 id="balance-assignments">Balance assignments</h2>
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<h2 id="directives">Directives</h2>
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<pre><code>[DATE] KEYWORD ARGS...
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[SUBDIRECTIVES]
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DATE balance
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DATE close
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DATE commodity
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DATE document
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DATE event
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DATE note
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DATE open
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DATE pad
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DATE price
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DATE txn
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include
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option
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plugin
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poptag
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pushtag</code></pre>
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<h2 id="account-open">account, open</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE open ACCOUNT [COMMODITY[,...]] [METHOD]
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2014-05-01 open Assets:Cash USD,CAD</code></pre>
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<p>Every account posted to needs an open directive with prior date.</p>
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<h2 id="close">close</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE close ACCOUNT</code></pre>
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<h2 id="commodity">commodity</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE commodity COMMODITY
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[METADATA]
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1867-01-01 commodity CAD
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name: "Canadian Dollar"
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asset-class: "cash"</code></pre>
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<p>Attaches metadata to a commodity.</p>
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<h2 id="market-price">market price</h2>
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<pre><code>DATE price COMMODITY AMOUNT
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2014-07-09 price USD 1.08 CAD</code></pre>
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<p>Also set by transaction prices.</p>
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