# beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files

Contents

- Description
- Documentation
- Download & Installation
- Filing Bugs
- Copyright and License
- Author

# Description

A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

# Documentation

Documentation lives on Google Docs. You can find an index to all the available documents here:

> http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/index

There's a mailing-list dedicated to Beancount, please post questions there, so others can share in the responses. More general discussions about command-line accounting also occur on the Ledger mailing-list so you might be interested in that group as well.

# Download & Installation

You can obtain the source code from the official Mercurial repository on BitBucket:

> http://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/

See the Installing Beancount document for more details.

# Filing Bugs

Tickets can be filed at on the BitBucket project page:

> http://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues

# Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Martin Blais. All Rights Reserved.

This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License;

# Author

Martin Blais <blais@furius.ca>