Plain Text Accounting

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Bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount.

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Average cost capital gains with hledger · Curious Bicycle (curiousbicycle.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I track the investments with the "@ notation" since I came to hledger from ledger-cli and I don't see any clear improvement to convert it to "standard postings with equity:conversion accounts". Any improvement? only to get to balance the book?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, no real benefit that I see, especially since you can generate them on the fly with --infer-equity when you want to see a perfectly balanced bse report. Though for some complex transactions inferring won't work and you'd have to manually add the equity postings to those.