Plain Text Accounting

Beancount

Reporting

  • bean-report file.ledger balances = basic balance report command.
  • bean-report file.ledger balances -e AccountName = same as above but only showing account names matching AccountName.
  • bean-report file.ledger balances | treeify = piping the basic balance command to treeify, provided by beancount, to have a tree-like visualization.
  • bean-report file.ledger balsheet > balance.html = output the balance report to an html file.
  • bean-report file.ledger income > income.html = output the income report to an html file.
  • bean-report file.ledger accounts = lists all the accounts, with opening and closing dates.
  • bean-report file.ledger stats-directives = outputs a total number for each directives’ types (transactions, opening, closing, commodities).
  • bean-report file.ledger stats-postings = outputs a total number of directives per account, sorted by the most to the least numerous.