My business is over 15 years old by now and our ledger use has grown to encompass 7 different currencies and multiple corporate entities (by calling ledger with

My business is over 15 years old by now and our ledger use has grown to encompass 7 different currencies and multiple corporate entities (by calling ledger with different includes we can generate a combined ledger across entities, very nice, try doing that with one of those online tools). So at some point you are going to have to deal with an accountant who will not typically know what ledger is. The solution is actually very simple: we wrote a small ruby script that generates an excel file that contains a balance and profit and loss statement in a format they are familiar with. That's the cool think about everything being text based, it's really easy to pipe the ledger output into a script and into a gem that generates an Excel file and add some styling. The raw journal files are also in a format accountants can easily comprehend, they didn't actually look at those in our case, but if they want to know where the Excel comes from they are welcome to audit them.