From 2f0487c0718013b993d70253103725b9e69e107b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vito-L Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:45:00 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Delete=20Ledger=20=E2=80=93=20A=20Powerful=20Co?= =?UTF-8?q?mmand=20Line=20Accounting=20Tool=20For=20Double-Entry=20Account?= =?UTF-8?q?ing.md?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- ...counting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting.md | 84 ------------------- 1 file changed, 84 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 sources/Ledger – A Powerful Command Line Accounting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting.md diff --git a/sources/Ledger – A Powerful Command Line Accounting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting.md b/sources/Ledger – A Powerful Command Line Accounting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting.md deleted file mode 100644 index 00305fdf5b..0000000000 --- a/sources/Ledger – A Powerful Command Line Accounting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ -Ledger – A Powerful Command Line Accounting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting -========== -Whether you are a computer geek or a normal user, keeping account of expenses is always essential. While there are many popular GUI based accounting tools available for Linux (For example – [GNUCash][1]), working on a command line accounting tool is hard to imagine for most of the users. In this article, we will discuss a powerful command line accounting tool – **Ledger**. - -![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-main.png) - -**Ledger – Double-Entry Accounting Tool** - -Ledger is a powerful command line tool for double-entry accounting. For those who are new to the term “Double-Entry”, it means that for every transaction there has to be a source. In a layman’s terms, this means, for every credit made into an account, there has to be a debit from an account. So, ledger keeps track of the movement of money and helps you understand your expenses. - -Ledger does not have a database of its own, it relies on an expense sheet (a simple text file) maintained by the user. Though there is a particular format of the expense sheet that ledger understands. - -For example, here is a sample expense sheet that I prepared : - -![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-11.png) - -A couple of points worth noting : - -- All the lines under a category (For example – Shopping, Leisure or EMI) are tab indented -- Similarly, all the expense figures (including $) are also tab indented -- Being Double-Entry accounting tool, it is important to specify both credit and debit. Ledger will give error otherwise. - -**A brief Tutorial** - -Once the expense sheet is ready, here is how you can check the overall expenses : - -![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-2.png) - -So you can see that through **-f option**, you can specify your expense sheet name and **balance** is a ledger command that processes total payment records which are displayed categorically. Also, the debit payments are shown in RED while expenditure is shown in WHITE. - -As discussed earlier, ledger requires user to enter correct debit-credit details. Here is an example of error when incorrect debit-credit relationship was mentioned in the expense sheet : - -![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-3.png) - -I just changed the shopping expense for shoes from $50 to $60 but did not change the payment figure. As you can see that ledger displayed error “**Transaction does not balance**“. - -Apart from balance, you can use **register** command to display all the entries corresponding to a report-query. - -For example : - -![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-4.png) - -So, you can see that in the example above - **register** command was used with report-query shopping and all the transaction related to this category were displayed in output. - -This was just a tip of an iceberg, ledger provides many other options (including report generation) that are worth trying. Visit the [man page][2] for more. - -**Pros** - -- A powerful and feature rich accounting tool -- Easy to use -- Coloured output. - -**Cons** - -- Expense file needs to be maintained separately -- Has a bit of learning curve - -**Download/Install** - -Here are some of the important links related to ledger command line tool : - -- [Home Page][3] -- [Download][4] -- [Documentation][5] -- [A detailed review on LWN][6] - - -via: http://mylinuxbook.com/ledger-command-line-accounting-tool-2/ - -本文由 [LCTT][] 原创翻译，[Linux中国][] 荣誉推出 - -译者：[译者ID][] 校对：[校对者ID][] - -[LCTT]:https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject -[Linux中国]:http://linux.cn/portal.php -[Vito]:http://linux.cn/space/译者ID -[校对者ID]:http://linux.cn/space/校对者ID - -[1]:http://www.gnucash.org/ -[2]:http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger.1.html -[3]:http://www.ledger-cli.org/ -[4]:http://www.ledger-cli.org/download.html -[5]:http://www.ledger-cli.org/2.6/ledger.pdf -[6]:http://lwn.net/Articles/501681/