Dear all, I'm struggling with how to properly produce cash flow [1] and income statements [2] with Ledger-CLI. I've been digging through the list archives, but haven't found much thus far (with notable exceptions [3]).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow_statement [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_statement [3]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ledger-cli/tk9HRBSsT34/S0Qa8s8TnQ4J Following the recent pattern on this list of sharing best practices, I'd love if people who are doing cash flow statements and/or income statements could chime in and share *how* they are doing it. In particular, I'm interested in hearing about how people distinguish cash and cash equivalents from other accounts, and whether the distinction between direct and indirect methods of doing cash flow statements matters (my take is it doesn't, because ledger just adds things up, but I might be missing something). Income statements look much more straightforward --- it should be just a matter of "ledger balance ^Income ^Expenses" with the appropriate date filters --- but there too I might be overlooking something. FWIW, the Ledger manual does mention "cash flow" various times, but AFAICT it does so incorrectly (equating it to Income minus Expenses over a given period of time), at least from the point of view of people who are using the term in the typical accounting meaning. Many thanks in advance, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
