@peteretep gave a great reply - maybe better than this one, but here's my view on it: Stuff like this (and the next section) is easily doable: http://ledger-cl

@peteretep gave a great reply - maybe better than this one, but here's my view on it: Stuff like this (and the next section) is easily doable: http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Dealing-with-Petty-Cash http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Dealing-with-Pett... A lot of the things you'll think to do in an electronic system, with tags and tables and so on, can ultimately be modeled by accounts in a double entry system, and probably just as powerfully once you add things like "virtual accounts" and the like. At some point, it's sort of like greenspun's 10th rule - any sufficiently advanced money tracking system will implement a version of double entry accounting in it.