Posts from June 2025
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DrCr, a double-entry bookkeeping tool
I present DrCr, a self-contained cross-platform open-source double-entry bookkeeping tool, written using Rust and Tauri, with Vue.js on the frontend, and Luau for scriptable plugin support.
DrCr provides an easily navigated GUI which facilitates exploring financial information. Unlike more minimalist ledger-likes, DrCr embraces… »
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Moving beyond plaintext accounting – why I wrote my own double-entry bookkeeping tool
Since 2017, I have been using open-source double-entry bookkeeping tools to manage personal finances – initially GnuCash, and from 2019, the plaintext accounting tool ledger. Ledger, and plaintext accounting generally, sported a number of appealing features – the software is lightweight and performant,… »
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A dynamic, extensible approach to implementing double-entry bookkeeping
Motivation
Double-entry bookkeeping is the foundation of modern accounting. I have recently been developing DrCr, open-source software for double-entry bookkeeping, which has proved fruitful – a further article about the software will be forthcoming. In simple terms, generating accounting reports from double-entry transaction data… »