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+               <title>Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I came across
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/&quot;&gt;a blog post from Joey
+Hess&lt;/a&gt; describing &lt;a href=&quot;http://ledger-cli.org/&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt; and
+hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting.  I found it
+interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
+accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
+the different web based systems we use.  I find it hard to find what I
+look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
+the systems.  Ledger seem different.  The accounting data is kept in
+text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
+
+are at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports&quot;&gt;five
+different implementations&lt;/a&gt; able to read the format.  An example
+entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
+generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+2004-05-27 Book Store
+      Expenses:Books                 $20.00
+      Liabilities:Visa
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
+look for others using it.  I found blog posts from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/&quot;&gt;Christine
+Spang&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html&quot;&gt;Pete
+Keen&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/&quot;&gt;Andrew
+Cantino&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/&quot;&gt;Ronald
+Ip&lt;/a&gt; describing how they use it, as well as a post from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo&quot;&gt;Bradley
+M. Kuhn&lt;/a&gt; at the Software Freedom Conservancy.  All seemed like good
+recommendations fitting my need.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt;
+package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html&quot;&gt;hledger&lt;/a&gt;
+package only is available in Debian Sid.  As I use Squeeze, ledger
+seemed the best choice to get started.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger&quot;&gt;web scraper&lt;/a&gt; for
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lodo.no/&quot;&gt;LODO&lt;/a&gt;, the accounting system used by
+the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; association, and started to
+play with the data set.  I&#39;m not really deeply into accounting, but I
+am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
+using the &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ledger balance&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; command.  But I will have to
+gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
+for the organisations I am involved in.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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