financial management programs?

[Steve Holmes]

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I'm way behind on reading this list so sorry for such a delayed
response.

Ledger is double entry accounting but you don't have to balance the
final item in a transaction.  Like you have say, expense and assets;
you can specify the amount on the expense side and leave asset blank.
The asset entry would then be defaulted to the amount to make it
balance.  

As for generating statements, the ledger command can be run with
various options but to get any kind of nice looking report, you would
have to filter the output with a script or something.

I have never heard of sql-leger.  I like SQL and databases and such so
this other package might interest me.  I like the emacs mode available
with ledger.  I would like to improve on the emacs mode some to really
makeit shine.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:39:12PM -0800, Shane W wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 02:25:51AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I installed ledger last week and got my financial records loading into
> 
> Ok, coming on this thread late in the game but very
> interesting as I've not found a good Windows accessible
> accounting package as yet. Double entry in Excel is a beast
> trying to keep everything in balance, posting etc.
> 
> So I'm curious how ledger compares with sql-ledger. The
> latter seems to be able to generate income statements,
> balance sheets etc. Can ledger do this?
> 
> Shane
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