Bookkeeping

Posted on vr 29 augustus 2025 in tools • 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 …


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Using Ledger-cli for joint finances

Posted on do 24 juli 2025 in blog • 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 …


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