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are you familiar with this project? https://www.ledger-cli.org/ https://www.ledger-cli.org/
by nyamada 8y ago
are you familiar with this project?
https://www.ledger-cli.org/ https://www.ledger-cli.org/
- greenleafjacob 8y agoAlso a fan of ledger. See http://plaintextaccounting.org http://plaintextaccounting.org for some more details on its workflow.
- kqr 8y agoI'm a huge fan of double entry accounting, regardless of vessel (I do it in Google Sheets from time to time), even for the simplest things. Very flexible and powerful, yet safe.
- jgalvez 8y agoYup, my intent was to get to a simpler approach.
- howeyc 8y agoThis is what I use to budget. I just create a budget transaction at the start of the month with my plan for the month. I then run a report showing the difference between each budget account and each corresponding expense account on a monthly basis.
- msangi 8y agoI really like this approach. Currently I'm using Fava, which has all the power of Beancount and a nice web UI https://beancount.github.io/fava/ https://beancount.github.io/fava/
- ytjohn 8y agoAlso, Fava adds budgeting to Beancount. Beancount itself doesn't really have the concept, but Fava lets you add budget lines and compare your spending against your budget.
- nebgnahz 8y agoJust learned (and still learning) ledger two days ago. I found it not intuitive but can see the value. Any good tutorial/guide?
- Jtsummers 8y agohttp://plaintextaccounting.org http://plaintextaccounting.org And the links from there are a pretty good start. Start with just basic asset tracking (checking, savings) and liability tracking (debt, CC) and get into the routine of it. Then you can add in your investments and other assets (car, home, stocks, foreign currency holdings, etc.). If you don't care about a slightly inaccurate history, just add the stocks later on at their present value, or go back and find your initial purchase dates and cost basis and let ledger calculate your present gain/loss.