Plain Text Accounting

156 readers

1 users here now

Bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

zako

Any way to see net instead of gross in Revenue in hledger? (self.plaintextaccounting)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by PracticalReputation to c/plaintextaccounting

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In hledger I have my income set up like income:job:main (gross) and taxes are in expenses:job:tax, so when I run: $ hledger is -t job I can see my net value for my work and if I run $ hledger is -t other expenses come into play as well.

Sometimes though, I would like to be able to see the income statement view with my net for my job under Revenues and the rest of my expenses under Expenses. Is there any easy way to do this with an alias or similar?

top 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] simonmic 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

hledger is --alias expenses:job:tax=income:job:main should do it.

[–] PracticalReputation 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you so much! It works exactly like I wanted!