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I love how this thread immediately filled up with all the accounting nerds on the site. Good to see you all again! I’ll do my part and throw in what I believe
by bbor 3y ago
I love how this thread immediately filled up with all the accounting nerds on the site. Good to see you all again!
I’ll do my part and throw in what I believe is the most popular modern take on this, beancount. I ended up going back to ledger but if the super old school interface and stack bother you, beancount might be nicer. Plus the beancount docs are just out-of-this-world good for learning double-entry accounting in general.
Docs: https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_method.html#introduction https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m...
Comparison: https://beancount.github.io/docs/a_comparison_of_beancount_and_ledger_hledger.html https://beancount.github.io/docs/a_comparison_of_beancount_a...
- cipehr 3y agoI’ve been using beancount for almost 1.5 years now, and other than having to explicitly open accounts I love it! I use the fava UI to have all the nice modern visuals: https://beancount.github.io/fava/ https://beancount.github.io/fava/
- visika 3y agobeancount user here, I remember starting with ledger/hledger and then switching to beancount because of its nicer handling of investments (as in nicer towards the user); the "Philosophical Differences" highlighted in the docs reminded me of why I switched — and then there is fava which is cool to start with