Hello everyone, I've recently come across ledger and the concept of PTA and I amvery intrigued.
As I am not an experienced programmer nor have a software engineering background, I am eager to see your opinions on how realistic it is to use ledger (or one of its brothers) to help industrialize accounting and/or book-keeping for a small business. My idea is roughly to use ledger as the "backend" and find some way to automate most of the data insertions - maybe by parsing bank extracts and automating the "add" function to the main transaction data file (thinking about using it as a single file for all book-keeping now, as suggested in the hledger FAQ). My main goals for this particular task are: 1. Spend zero money on accounting software and use something I can read the code of; 2. Minimize manual transaction recording and general book-keeping tasks; 3. Be able to produce clean reports and export data to give to an accountant (hoping I can strike some deal where an accountant will lower the fees if I provide clean data and reduce their worload). As this been done, and if so, how feasible is it to maintain? Is ledger a good choice for the tasks mentioned above, or is hledger (or another project) better suited for this? Thank you for the attention, Tomás -- --- 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/c615b787-178f-4a82-9b51-77601b835876n%40googlegroups.com.
