ledger/ledger

Features

• Double-Entry Accounting Tools - Provides a command-line double-entry accounting tool that reads plain-text journals and generates financial reports.
• Double-Entry Bookkeeping Engines - Maintains the fundamental accounting equation by processing each transaction as balanced debits and credits across named accounts.
• Financial Performance Reports - Produces balance, register, and other accounting reports from journal entries using command-line options.
• Financial Report Generators - Produces formatted balance, register, and budget reports directly to stdout with configurable columns.
• Transaction Register Reports - Lists every transaction affecting selected accounts in chronological order with running balances.
• Variance Reports - Compares actual postings against budget targets to compute spending variances per account and period.
• Plain-Text Journal Workflows - Records financial transactions in a plain-text journal and processes them into a double-entry accounting ledger.
• Containerized Accounting Workflows - Running accounting commands in a containerized environment without installing native dependencies, enabling portable and reproducible financial tracking.
• Command-Line Reporters - Generates balance sheets, transaction registers, and budget reports from journal entries using command-line options and filters.
• Accounting Journal Files - Reads financial transactions from plain-text journal files and processes them into an accounting ledger.
• Journal Parsers - Reads double-entry transactions from a human-readable plain-text file using a custom parser for accounts, commodities, and metadata.
• Account Balance Queries - Computes and displays current account balances by aggregating all recorded transactions from the journal.
• Journal Balance Summaries - Produces a summary of account balances from a plain-text journal, showing debits and credits for any date range.
• Financial Transaction Processing - Processes plain-text journal files into double-entry accounting entries to track financial transactions.
• Budget Variance Reporters - Compares actual spending against budgeted amounts defined in the journal, highlighting variances.
• Transaction Filters - Selects transactions matching criteria such as account, payee, amount, or date using a simple expression language.
• Net Worth Tracking - Calculates total assets minus total liabilities across all accounts at a given point in time.
• Lot Tracking - Manages investment lots with separate cost bases and dates for computing capital gains on partial sales.
• Transaction History Views - Shows chronological transaction history for specific accounts, filtered by date or other criteria.
• Cost Basis Trackers - Manages multiple acquisition lots per commodity with separate cost bases and dates for capital gains on partial sales.
• Currency Conversion - Converts transaction amounts between currencies on-the-fly during report generation using user-supplied exchange rates.
• Lot-Based Currency Converters - Converts transaction amounts between currencies and manages investment lots with separate cost bases for capital gains calculations.
• Date Range Query Filters - Restricts report output to transactions occurring within a specified date period.
• Transaction Date Filters - Computes account balances and report totals by filtering transactions against a specified date interval before aggregation.
• Applications - Command-line accounting and financial tracking.
• Personal Finance - Command-line tool for plain text double-entry accounting.

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