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Bookkeeping

Posted on 2025-08-29 20:00:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with bookkeeping, ledger-cli, personal finance, flow

Knowing how to Keep the Books is a skill, I believe, everybody would benefit from.

Double-entry accounting

Double-entry accounting simply means that this method accounts for every transaction where the money came from and where it is going. It makes "two entries"!

I highly recommend reading Principles of Accounting with …

Using Ledger-cli for joint finances

Posted on 2025-07-24 19:25:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with ledger-cli, personal finance, bookkeeping

I have been using ledger-cli since 2015. At first only for my personal finances. To make it easier for myself, I use the CSV files I download from the bank and convert these into ledger-cli transaction files.

Later I incorporated my business records as well. This gave me a single …