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Beancount Cheat Sheet

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Mike Thrift
Mike Thrift
Marketing Manager

Example Account Name

Assets:US:BofA:Checking

cheatsheet-en

Account Types

Assets          +
Liabilities -
Income -
Expenses +
Equity -

Commodities

CNY, EUR, CAD, AUD
GOOG, AAPL, RBF1005
HOME_MAYST, AIRMILES
HOURS

Directives

General syntax

YYYY-MM-DD <Directive> <Parameters...>

Opening & Closing Accounts

2001-05-29 open Expenses:Restaurant
2001-05-29 open Assets:Checking USD,EUR ; Currency constraints

2015-04-23 close Assets:Checking

Declaring Commodities (Optional)

1998-07-22 commodity AAPL
name: "Apple Computer Inc."

Prices

2015-04-30 price AAPL   125.15 CNY
2015-05-30 price AAPL 130.28 CNY

Notes

2013-03-20 note Assets:Checking "Called to ask about rebate"

Documents

2013-03-20 document Assets:Checking "path/to/statement.pdf"

Transactions

2015-05-30 * "Some narration about this transaction"
Liabilities:CreditCard -101.23 CNY
Expenses:Restaurant 101.23 CNY

2015-05-30 ! "Cable Co" "Phone Bill" #tag ˆlink
id: "TW378743437" ; Meta-data
Expenses:Home:Phone 87.45 CNY
Assets:Checking ; You may leave one amount out

Postings

  ...    123.45 USD                             Simple
... 10 GOOG {502.12 USD} With per-unit cost
... 10 GOOG {{5021.20 USD}} With total cost
... 10 GOOG {502.12 # 9.95 USD} With both costs
... 1000.00 USD @ 1.10 CAD With per-unit price
... 10 GOOG {502.12 USD} @ 1.10 CAD With cost & price
... 10 GOOG {502.12 USD, 2014-05-12} With date
! ... 123.45 USD ... With flag

Balance Assertions and Padding

; Asserts the amount for only the given currency:
2015-06-01 balance Liabilities:CreditCard -634.30 CNY

; Automatic insertion of transaction to fulfill the following assertion:
2015-06-01pad Assets:Checking Equity:Opening-Balances

Events

2015-06-01 event "location" "New York, USA"
2015-06-30 event "address" "123 May Street"

Options

option "title" "My Personal Ledger"

Other

pushtag #trip-to-peru
...
poptag #trip-to-peru
; Comments begin with a semi-colon