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by bcheung 3425 days ago
That's kind of cool. I was looking for something for small business but I don't really like Quickbooks or Xero. Was debating writing my own. Does this support double entry accounting with debits and credits?
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Yes, `hledger' is based on double entry bookkeeping. But we do not use the Credit and Debit conventions. Instead we use negative numbers to imply deduction in the balance of an account. Each journal entry must be balanced.
I actually want to write an Emacs Lisp port of hledger/ledger. Just for fun sometime. I cannot do this in the near future though.
So you make sure everything sums to 0 instead of sum(credits) == sum(debits)?