You are most welcome, John. Thank you for the additional tips which I shall be certain to follow. I'll be diving in, in the days and months ahead, and will be most happy to share my ledger-cli adventures with you!
with my best regards, Kinley On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 1:10:33 PM UTC+6, John Wiegley wrote: > > >>>>> kinleyd <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: > > > I already like the great flexibility ledger-cli provides for generating > your > > own reports, and for now I only have to wrap my mind around ledger-cli's > use > > of negative numbers. So far I get it with regard to income sources but > have > > been a bit befuddled when it comes to things like accounts payable, > > receivable and retained earnings at the time of setting up initial > balances. > > I just need to chew upon it for a little while. > > Thank you, Kinley! The negative numbers can certainly be odd from an > accounting perspective. Be sure to check out the "--dc" option for your > reports, which will separately report debits and credits against the > total. > > The primary way to think about Ledger's use of signs is that everything is > a > flow, and Ledger is just recording the direction and magnitude of flow > between > accounts. This way, it doesn't need to know anything about accounting at > all, > which keeps the calculation engine simple -- but it requires you to apply > some > interpretation of your own to make best use of the resulting numbers. > > > What I'm really excited about is this - I think ledger-cli is the > perfect > > tool to teach accounting with. So much can be learned by trial and error > > while trying to absorb fundamental accounting concepts, and the overhead > is > > just ledger-cli, boost, the command line and a text editor. I'm going to > be > > exploring this avenue. > > I would be very interested to hear what you come up with! > > Yours, > John > -- --- 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.
