Posts from March 2020

• ledger-pyreport: Formal accounting reports for ledger-cli

  31 March 2020 (updated 17 April 2020) | bookkeeping ledger plain-text accounting | Comment

  Ledger is a powerful command-line plain-text double-entry bookkeeping system. It is agnostic as to higher-level accounting principles, which makes it a very versatile tool for a wide variety of use cases, but does create challenges when extracting formal accounting reports. For example, Ledger struggles to… »

• Incorrect accounting of unrealised gains in ledger-cli

  31 March 2020 | bookkeeping ledger plain-text accounting | Comment

  Problem 1

  Consider the following Ledger journal:

  2019-07-01 Opening balances Assets:Current:Cash at Bank $1000.00 Equity:Opening Balances 2019-07-02 Application Assets:Current:International Account 100.00 EUR @ $1.10 Assets:Current:Cash at Bank 2019-08-02 Application Assets:Current:International Account 100.00 EUR @ $1.05 Assets:Current:Cash at Bank 2019-09-02 Redemption Assets:Current:Cash at Bank $57.50 Assets:Current:International

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