So many tempting options...
Can you recommend a tool and open your accounting workflow, marttt?
Are there any pain points, like filling tax forms or handling travel paperwork?
Can you recommend a tool and open your accounting workflow, marttt?
Are there any pain points, like filling tax forms or handling travel paperwork?
pta, however, does this numbering [2], so for filing taxes in my country, its journal format seems more straightforward in case auditors should have any interest in it. I also quite like its terseness (1 transaction = often 1 line, as compared to 3 in a ledger-cli journal -- gives a better overview and is somewhat better to parse further with sed or awk when needed [3]). Finally, it is a single Perl script, thus very portable and lightweight.
All that said, pta doesn't seem to have much of a following, as compared to ledger-cli, which, obviously, is a much more mature project.
There was also an interesting discussion regarding pta vs ledger, involving the author, OpenBSD dev Ingo Schwarze [4] -- well worth a read regarding the general plain text accounting philosophy also. Interesting stuff.
2: https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/pta/accounts.example.en?rev=1.3&conten...
3: https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/~checkout~/pta/journal.example.en?rev=...
4: https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=202009281234...
Dpifke, beancounter looks nice, big and well tought out. I bookmarked the docs/ to have a more troughout look at it later.
Update: Had a more detailed look on Beancount.
The end-of-search post is here, with the final choice being GnuCash:
<https://lwn.net/Articles/925782/>
HN discussion (200+ comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021197>
You'll find at least some of the other posts in the series, and related articles, here:
<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Alwn.net+accounting+software...>