> e.g. Ledger doesn't really distinguish between credit and debit > accounts so the sign of a value might not be what you expect.
The great thing about ledger is you can name your accounts anything you like. The horrible thing about ledger is everyone will come up with their own naming scheme that may or may not be well designed or make sense to anyone else. Something that would be great for the docs would be a bunch of well commented example files and workflows. I'd be willing to provide examples that reflect my own usage, for example: When I invoice people and they pay me, the money goes through stages - it first shows up in "Business:Assets:AccountsReceivable" then "Business:Assets:UndepositedFunds" once I get a check or cash, then "Business:Assets:CheckingAccount" once deposited. This lets me reconcile both my customer's payments and deposit slips that may contain funds from multiple transactions. This sort of process is non-trivial and, for me at least, was harder to get right than learning Ledger's syntax and feature set. - Zack
