Not lock users into a particular scheme: changing account names or
Those who are not afraid of the command line, though, Beancount does Integrate that tracking into your life or business is largely left up to you. But, what to track, how to do so, and how to Started" document is helpful, as is the " Tutorial No guidance at all, just that it is rather general and non-prescriptive. The philosophy of the project as a whole: provide The open-ended nature of the documentation seems clearly in keeping with
Get a bit long in the tooth, with dates from 20, so it may notĪll accurately reflect the current state. In addition, some of the documentation is starting to Possibilities, but doesn't grab new users by the scruff of the neck and say Ways the documentation is like the tool itself: it opens up huge The Double-Entry Counting Method" by Beancount developer Martin Blais.ĭocumentation, that document is helpful and well-written, but in some ThisĬentral idea is described in " Beancount . The "balancing" nature of transactions is one of the fundamental conceptsīehind Beancount (and double-entry accounting as a whole, I think, though I amįar from an expert): all transactions must sum to zero. Liabilities:US:BigBankCorp:TuxCard -75.60 USD On a complicated transaction, with severalĭifferent expense buckets, it may be easier to let Beancount do the math įor this transaction, it probably makes sense to simply put the value into the The "-75.60 USD" to balance out the transaction is automaticallyĪpplied to that final entry. That adds the amount of an LWN subscription to the appropriate expenseĪccount, while deducting the same amount from the "TuxCard" liability account. Various types of items (which could be pork bellies, money in multipleĪnything else that can be counted). An Emacs minor mode for Beancount is available and there are alsoĬustomization packages for Vim and Sublime.Īt its core, Beancount "simply" implements double-entry bookkeeping on Systems, debuggers, and source-code control-making it into an IDE for Is noted for its integration with other tools, such as compilers, build With a wide array of customization possibilities. Those who are used to GUI tools forĪccounting may be daunted, but text editors are remarkably flexible tools "Text based" means just what it says on the tin-all of the information used byīeancount is stored in regular text files. It is an interesting system, with a lot ofĬapabilities, but its reliance on hand-rolling for various pieces That nature before too long but, in the meantime, a slightly less grumpyĮditor has been messing with this text-based accounting tool for a variety Proprietary QuickBooks application and moving to something free. It is normally the grumpy editor's job to lookĪt accounting software he does so with an eye toward getting the business off of the
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