I was able to get done what I needed to get done using the normal mechanism for specifying accounts and comments. This is what I came up with:
http://xbrlsite.azurewebsites.net/2020/master/automation/TrialBalance.dat.txt Ledger is one of the coolest software applications that I have seen in a long time. In fact, the whole "plain text accounting" movement is a really good thing in my view. See: http://xbrl.squarespace.com/journal/2020/5/5/plain-text-accounting.html Cheers, Charlie On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 2:07:46 PM UTC-7, Charles Hoffman wrote: > > Question for this group. Are you aware of XBRL? Is there anyone > interested in investigating adding the capability to map XBRL concepts to > the Ledger chart of accounts. This would enable the ability to enter a > transaction and then the transaction could "flow" all the way through to an > XBRL-based financial report. Further, if one additional code was added to > the general journal, you could also automate the process of creating a > correct cash flow statement. > > There are lots and lots of other possibilities such as turning Ledger into > an expert system for accounting and reporting. > > For a plethora of information about XBRL, please see my blog: > > http://xbrl.squarespace.com/ > > Fundamentally, if you got the right metadata, which properly created XBRL > taxonomies can provide, there is a boatload of tasks that can be automated: > accounting, reporting, auditing, and analysis. > > For more information, please see: > > http://xbrl.squarespace.com/journal/2020/4/1/record-to-report-plus.html > > > http://xbrl.squarespace.com/journal/2020/2/21/digital-financial-reporting-the-big-picture-in-pictures.html > > > http://xbrl.squarespace.com/journal/2020/2/20/trends-in-financial-reporting.html > > Cheers, > > Charlie > https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleshoffmancpa/ > -- --- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/22ab2fc6-26be-47a1-8894-c3445e1d3f2f%40googlegroups.com.
