I am really curious to hear what people have to say about this. If I may expand on this, would anyone like to share how they generate standard financial reports? These are the three I'm talking about:
- balance sheet - profit/loss (AKA income/expense) - cash flow statement Note: I believe this is basically what Karen is asking about, but I'm familiar with the terms above because: 1) this is what many books call the reports 2) this is also what quickbooks calls the reports If you can generate these reports on a monthly and yearly basis, then you have everything you need to track your finances closely, and eventually to do taxes at the end of the year. Best, Ian On Aug 21, 9:03 am, karencooke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use ledger (2.6.1) with Aquamacs emacs on Mac OS X to organise my > personal finances. I'm fine with all the basic reporting functions it > provides. My husband prefers something prettier. I've tried to > shoehorn the figures into various excel spreadsheets, but it's really > too time consuming. I've looked at ledgerplot.py > fromhttp://joyful.com/Ledger, > but the period functions don't work - it just does totals, and my > python skills are just not up to diving in (being virtually non > existent). > > What do other people do for monthly income/expense/net worth style > reports? > > (As an aside my husband gets paid on the 25th of the month so my month > in my reports runs from 25th to 24th, which seems to confuse most apps > which insist on being conventional and starting a month on the 1st ;) > > Any hints or tips appreciated. > > Thanks > > Karen Cooke
