accjournal.el

accjournal.el is a minimal double-entry accounting system for Emacs. Transactions are recorded in a text file journal and Emacs code calculates and displays a report of accounts and balances from it (no external programs required).

30 Apr 10  400.00    09/10 salary   -> Bank
30 Apr 10   20.00    09/10 interest -> Bank
 1 May 10   60.00    Bank           -> zPersonal | ATM withdrawal

See the commentary in accjournal.el for brief notes, and the accjournal-mode docstring for full documentation (such as it is). The .tar.gz full source includes sample journal files.

accjournal.el is free software (free as in freedom), published under the terms of the GNU General Public License (v3 or up).

Download version 4 here, either just the .el, or the full source, or a Debian package here or from my repo.

accjournal.el (45k, and sig)
accjournal-4.tar.gz (44k, and sig)
accjournal_4-1_all.deb (17k, and sig)

Each sig is a Gnu PG ascii armoured signature for the respective files, generated from my key.

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See also

• accounting.el — slightly similar minimal Emacs-only accounting.
• Ledger — also text-file based, a C++ program with lots of features and output forms. There's an Emacs interface for entering things.
• EekBoek — postgres or sqlite database with command shell or GUI.