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Getting Started With Ledger - The Book

Getting Started With Ledger is an introductory book for the excellent command line accounting tool Ledger.

The book covers:

  • The basics of (double entry) accounting.
  • Installing & running basic Ledger.
  • Setting up a fully automatic environment for production use.
  • Integrating external data (CSV from banks etc.) into the journal.
  • Generating the usual reports about one's financial situation automatically.
  • Advanced topics like automated transactions (briefly).

Get the book

Go the the Releases page and download the PDF file.

You can also browse the latest version on GitHub.

Get the latest version

$ mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src
$ git clone https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book.git
$ cd GSWL-book
$ make pdf # use pandoc to generate LaTeX & PDF file

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gswl-book's Issues

Typo Nov 2011

# Show monthly expenses since Nov 2011 & average monthly expense since the dawn of time
$ led -M -n -A --display "date>=[2041/11/01]" reg ^Expenses

Nov 2041?

# Show monthly expenses for Mar 2042 & average monthly expenses since Nov 2011
$ led -M -n -A --limit "date>=[2041/11/01]" --display "date>=[2042/03/01]" reg ^Expenses

Nov 2041?

Add EPUB to releases

Hi. Due to the humongous numbers of dependencies that a pandoc installation requires, do you think you could also publish an EPUB release next to the PDF?

EPUB can be formatted significantly better on some mobile e-readers.

Confusion about accounts

The book says:

Example accounts may be “Groceries”, “Bike”, “Holidays”, “Checking Account of Bank X”, “Salary” or “Mortgage”.

Technically, the account would be Expneses:Groceries, etc. Maybe you should say something like:

Categories could include things like "Groceries".... In ledger, these would be expressed as accounts by prepending Expenses, e.g. Expenses:Groceries.

needs a web version

I recommended this book today, but IMHO it takes too many clicks to get it on screen, not all of them obvious. (In latest firefox on mac, 5 clicks from the plaintextaccounting page.) I think this book is excellent and should be much better known. I think it needs a web version you can click directly to and see the table of contents right away.

German translation?

I'd be interested in participating in/doing a German version of this great guide. Can I just go ahead in my fork?

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