Please do realize that some of those clever tricks may not be possible in more traditional accounting systems. For instance, you can count “IRA contribution dollars,” which are not real dollars, but which correspond to “possible contributions in real dollars,” and you obtain accounts of assets, income and expenses types for them - it works. If you haven’t begun writing down your first file, you will want to read Getting Started with Beancount and do that first.Ĭommand-line accounting systems are agnostic about the types of things they can count and allow you to get creative with the kinds of units that you can invent to track various kinds of things.
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This document also assumes that you are already familiar with the general balancing concepts of the double-entry method and with at least some of the syntax of Beancount which is available from its user’s manual or its cheat sheet. This cookbook is written using the syntax and calculation method of the Beancount software. Some of the details may differ only slightly. I think this will likely be the most useful document in the Beancount documentation set!Īll the examples here apply to any double-entry accounting system: Ledger, GnuCash, or even commercial systems. It is not meant to be a comprehensive description of all the features supported, but rather a set of practical guidelines to help you solve problems.
The method is elegant, but it can seem unintuitive to the newcomer how transactions have to be posted in order to perform the various operations that one needs to do in counting for different types financial events.
The best way to learn the double-entry method is to look at real-world examples.
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