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About-real-world-setup-docs.md

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+hledger and plain text accounting tools generally are highly flexible
+and don't impose much structure or process. This can make it hard to
+get started.
+
+In this part of the site, you can read about file layouts, account
+organisations, workflows and routines that have been effective for
+other hledger users in practice. You may like to try replicating one
+of these exactly, or simply read for ideas.
+
+These docs are not required to be complete, reproducible, or
+maintained (although that is welcome), but they should give some
+insight about setups or processes that you found useful in practice.
+
+Here's a rough template to provide ideas:
+
+```
+Author: X 
+Last updated: DATE 
+
+## Requirements
+
+Tested on: PLATFORM(S) 
+Tested with: HLEDGER VERSION 
+Tools used: 
+hledger, 
+hledger-ui, 
+GNU make, 
+sed..
+
+## Files
+
+`tree` output..
+
+## Data entry / conversion
+
+How I capture data..
+
+## Version control
+
+How I use version control, if any
+
+## Accounts
+
+Account hierarchy used, any organisational principles, how I maintain it..
+
+## Reports
+
+The main reports used ?
+
+## Tasks / Workflows
+
+How to do ..
+
+## Routines
+
+Recurring (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly..) workflows
+```

Accounting-links.md

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+## General
+
+- Wikipedia:
+ [Accounting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting),
+ [Bookkeeping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookkeeping),
+ [Double-entry bookkeeping system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entry_bookkeeping_system),
+ [General journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_journal)
+ etc.
+- [Accounting For Dragons](https://podcastle.org/2009/10/09/pc-miniature-38-accounting-for-dragons) why you should know accounting
+- [Bean Counter](https://www.dwmbeancounter.com/) - tutorials, such as
+ [So, you want to learn Bookkeeping!](https://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html).
+ This has been recommended on the ledger list and [on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245101).
+- [Accounting Coach](https://www.accountingcoach.com/)
+- [Accounting Basics](https://www.accountingverse.com/accounting-basics/)
+- [Guru 99 Accounting Tutorials](https://www.guru99.com/accounting.html)
+- [principlesofaccounting.com](https://www.principlesofaccounting.com)
+- [Double Entry Bookkeeping](https://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoubleEntryBookkeeping) discussion by software developers at the WikiWikiWeb
+- [Winning Financially is Simple](https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/youneedabudget/id/2657122) and other good episodes from the [YNAB Podcast](https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/youneedabudget)
+- [Back to the Stone Age: Low-Tech Expense Tracking](https://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/02/28/back-to-the-stone-age-low-tech-expense-tracking/) Get Rich Slowly
+- [Track Every Penny You Spend](https://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/09/22/track-every-penny-you-spend/) Get Rich Slowly
+- [I’ve Tracked My Expenses — Now What?](https://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/04/08/ask-the-readers-ive-tracked-my-expenses-now-what/) Get Rich Slowly
+- [A Slow-Tech Approach to Tracking Spending](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/your-money/household-budgeting/a-slow-tech-approach-to-tracking-spending.html)
+- [Your Financial Network Map](https://www.bargaineering.com/articles/financial-network-map.html)
+- [The Accountancy Model and The Accountancy Model Examples](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22The%20Accountancy%20Model%22%20%2B%22The%20Accountancy%20Model%20Examples%22) - two free books by Tim Riley
+- [Gnucash and double entry accounting](https://www.austintek.com/gnucash/ncsa-gnucash-talk.html) - double entry accounting introduction with examples
+- [Accounting for Computer Scientists](https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html)
+- [Closing Entries](https://www.cliffsnotes.com/more-subjects/accounting/accounting-principles-i/completion-of-the-accounting-cycle/closing-entries)
+- [Tutorial on multiple currency accounting](https://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html) by Peter Selinger
+
+## Theory
+
+- [Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems](https://www.amazon.com/Algebraic-Accounting-Systems-Salvador-Rambaud/dp/9814287113) - recommended [on twitter](https://twitter.com/meekaale/status/1000426850819170304)
+- [On Double-Entry Bookkeeping: The Mathematical Treatment](https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1898) David Ellerman 2014, <https://www.ellerman.org/double-entry-bookkeeping>
+
+## History
+
+- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_accounting>
+- [The Vanished Grandeur of Accounting](https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/06/07/the-vanished-grandeur-accounting/3zcbRBoPDNIryWyNYNMvbO/story.html) (Boston Globe) & [discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933746)
+- <https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39870485>
+- <https://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-11-number-1/the-significance-of-ancient-mesopotamia-in-accounting-history/>
+- [Mesopotamian Tablet Collection](https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/collections/notable-collections/profiles/mesopotamian-tablet.html) (Spurlock Museum}
+- [Ledger Art](https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/anthropology/online-collections-research/ledger-art-collection)

Addons.md

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+Additional hledger tools you can install with stack or cabal. Once installed, these will appear in hledger's commands list:
+
+[hledger-diff](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-diff)
+shows differences in an account's transactions between one journal file and another.
+
+[hledger-iadd](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-iadd)
+is a curses-style replacement for hledger's add command. 
+
+[hledger-interest](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-interest)
+generates interest transactions for an account according to various schemes. 
+
+[hledger-irr](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-irr)
+calculates the internal rate of return of an investment account.
+
+More tools:
+
+[hledger-check.hs](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hledger-check.hs)
+checks more powerful account balance assertions.
+
+[ledger-autosync](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ledger-autosync)
+can download, deduplicate and/or convert OFX data (includes hledger support, 
+rename/symlink it to hledger-autosync to see it in commands list)
+
+[plaintextaccounting: related tools](https://plaintextaccounting.org/#related-tools) - all known plain text accounting helper tools
+