I recently started giving plain text accounting a go. For a long time I did not do any accounting, as my income was high enough to get by perfectly fine, but recently I wanted to get a lot more control over my personal finance in order to easier achieve more long term financial goals.
I’ve only been at it for about a month now, and I started out with ledger. So far I am enjoying the concept, but have not made much out of reporting yet. But I like the idea of also building my own reporting in Python on top of existing reports, and checking out the ecosystem around this (I understand BeanCount has a large Python ecosystem, so I will probably check this out once I have some months of data).
Are there anyone here doing this? I would love to hear some perspectives about this, both good and bad, from people having used this for a long time.
Yes. I have experimented with using it to track the finances for a tiny organization for which I volunteer. I was able to write some simple software with jaq to generate journal entries from domain-oriented data files. I liked what I had.
I would like to use it for my company’s books, and I might have the opportunity to do it this year.