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+Ledger – A Powerful Command Line Accounting Tool For Double-Entry Accounting
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+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**.
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+![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-main.png)
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+**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.
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+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.
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+For example, here is a sample expense sheet that I prepared :
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+![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-11.png)
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+A couple of points worth noting :
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+- 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**
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+Once the expense sheet is ready, here is how you can check the overall expenses :
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+![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-2.png)
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+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.
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+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 :
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+![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-3.png)
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+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**“.
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+Apart from balance, you can use **register** command to display all the entries corresponding to a report-query.
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+For example :
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+![](http://mylinuxbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ledger-4.png)
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+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.
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+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**
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+- A powerful and feature rich accounting tool
+- Easy to use
+- Coloured output.
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+**Cons**
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+- Expense file needs to be maintained separately
+- Has a bit of learning curve
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+**Download/Install**
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+Here are some of the important links related to ledger command line tool :
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+- [Home Page][3]
+- [Download][4]
+- [Documentation][5]
+- [A detailed review on LWN][6]
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+via: http://mylinuxbook.com/ledger-command-line-accounting-tool-2/
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+[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/
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