Getting Started With Ledger is an introductory book for the excellent command line accounting tool Ledger.
The book covers:
- The basics of (double entry) accounting.
- Installing & running basic Ledger.
- Setting up a fully automatic environment for production use.
- Integrating external data (CSV from banks etc.) into the journal.
- Generating the usual reports about one's financial situation automatically.
- Advanced topics like automated transactions (briefly).
Go the the Releases page and download the PDF file.
You can also browse the latest version on GitHub.
$ mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src
$ git clone https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book.git
$ cd GSWL-book
$ make pdf # use pandoc to generate LaTeX & PDF file