Questions relating to plain text accounting software, like hledger, ledger or beancount. See plaintextaccounting.org.
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GnuCash and ledger/hledger
I am using GnuCash 2.6.7 under Mac OS X 10.10.4 to do my personal finance. I have a fairly large account structure by now with many expense accounts to track different categories of spending.
I would like to use ledger, or preferably hledger, to…
user24385
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How to enter Return of Capital in ledger-cli
Some background first: I'm using GnuCash for personal finances and am trying to get some reports from ledger-cli. The data is exported using piecash from GnuCash into a ledger file.
When running ledger, it reports the error for the Return of…
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How can I identify all transfers from account A to account B in ledger-cli?
I would like to identify all the direct transfers from account A to account B. That is, all transactions with postings that include a positive amount for account B and a negative amount for account A.
What is the most practical way to do this with…
Alen Siljak
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Double entry process for 401k account exchange
I'm entering journal entries for hledger for a 401k account and have questions about how it should work when an account goes through an exchange (I'm not sure what it is exactly; I guess the finance firm is doing internal shuffling of…
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Why isn't hledger import parsing epoch timestamps?
I have a CSV with rows like this:
1724760000,"American Express","Payment",1234.56
When I run hledger import data/tmp.csv -f data/current.ledger --rules-file data/checking.csv.rules with date-format set to %s (number of whole seconds since the Unix…
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Does ledger-cli support FIFO principle for selling stock lots?
I could not find the detailed information about lot tracking in ledger and would appreciate if someone took the time to make it explicit.
If I have two purchase transactions for a fund, at 100 units each, and then I sell 150 in a single transaction,…
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Define category up front in ledger-cli
Here's some example transactions from the ledger manual:
2011/03/15 Trader Joe's
Expenses:Groceries $100.00
Assets:Checking
2011/03/15 Whole Food Market
Expenses:Groceries $75.00
Assets:Checking
Is there a way to define…
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Lemonade stand in ledger cli
The Accounting Game
There's a book that introduces accounting called The Accounting Game by Mullis and Orloff:
ledger-cli file
Here's one approach to implementing the transactions from chapter 1 in ledger-cli:
2024/01/01 original investment
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dharmatech
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